pc took an age to log on...

GunJack

donna, you may want to look at this post about cleaning your hard drive when vista seems to swallow your free space

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=25746315&postcount=7

Altahost

To run chkdsk,

Double click on Computer

Right click on the drive you want windows to check
Select Properties
Sellect Tools Tab
Click on Check For Errors button
Confirm your intentions for UAC Alert
This should invoke a Chkdsk /r option the next time you restart your PC.

Please note. This process will take some time but you must not switch the PC off during the process.

I feel certain this will reallocate the space marked by Defrag Software

Good luck

bazster

donnajunkie wrote: »

i've downloaded it and ran a scan but what do i do next?

It simply tells you where all your disk space is at. If you think that something has gobbled up 23Gb, it should be pretty obvious where it's gone! But, as has been said, it's probably just the defraggler (fraggler! love it!) going about it's normal business, and you interrupted it before it was done. In order to defrag files it has to move the fragments from where they are to somewhere else, which temporarily takes space. It all unwinds eventually.

aliEnRIK

I cant see a defrag program taking up that much space personally. When mine runs (And I do have some hugh files), it only fluctuates slightly as its defragging ~ and thats using defraggler

donnajunkie

another question has occurred to me. how do i check for duplicate files. i'm sure i i saw someone talk about this ages ago.

bazster

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I cant see a defrag program taking up that much space personally. When mine runs (And I do have some hugh files), it only fluctuates slightly as its defragging ~ and thats using defraggler

Mebbe. To be honest, I've never watched it that closely whilst it's working.

donnajunkie

my free space miraculously shot up to 213gb a few days ago.