Hard drive issue

[mkjuk]

How is it that i'm apparently using all 33 gig of storage space on my hard drive when all thats on my computer apart from a number of programmes is 7 gigs worth of tunes on itunes. Is tjhere any easy way of clicking on the pie chart to see how that space is being used??

[fo3nix]

http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/

that'll show what you're using, and where the main large files and things are.

[lamanchica]

What operating system are you using?

try converting to NTFS

[mkjuk]

I'm on XP What is NFTS?

[fo3nix]

why would NTFS help?

mjuk: the files on your drives can be stored in different ways. these different ways are known as different "file systems". the common file system for windows XP and 2000 is called NTFS, or New Technology File System (was made for windows NT...).

older drives will probably be formatted as FAT32. even older ones will be FAT16 (FAT). mac OS X drives are usually HFS+. GNU/Linux has another set of file systems, ext2, ext3, etc.

for windows, you choose FAT32 or NTFS. NTFS works faster for large drives (100GB+ or so). also, there is no special limit for the file size of an individual file. for FAT32, you are limited to a max of 4GB per file.

[mkjuk]

tHANKS fo3nix. The windir thing helped me locate the files clogging up the hard drive anyway