Comments on: Windows 2000 hard disk management

Question: Windows 2000 hard disk management

patrickje — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:39:55 -0800

Hard disk management. I have several hard drives, running from 20GB to 120GB. My primary C: drive is on the 20GB drive, and the other day I noticed it was taking quite a while to do things, the C: drive was down to about 20MB of disk space! What I'm looking for is a disk manager that would look at hard drive and tell me what folders are taking up what space on the hard drive, so I could prune the offending directories. I'm on Windows 2000, and would prefer freeware.

By: bizwank

bizwank — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:56:48 -0800

Search download.com for "hard drive space", you'll come up with quite a few options.

Also, defrag early and often.

By: luser

luser — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:02:52 -0800

Treesize does this and it's free.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:15:54 -0800

SequoiaView. Free. And it's pretty, too.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:19:12 -0800

scanner. you can find it here: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/, first link in the list.

free program, uses a graphical pie chart to show you which folders/files are hogging your drive. you can click on a folder to "drill down" into directories to narrow your results. it's helped me find massive folders full of junk on more than one occasion.

By: mmascolino

mmascolino — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:27:58 -0800

SpaceMonger is something along the same line as SequoiaView.

By: trharlan

trharlan — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:38:39 -0800

I also use Spacemonger, and I like it. The graphical interface is neat-o.

By: some chick

some chick — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:07:29 -0800

SequoiaView, as stated above. It's freakin' fantastic.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:51:56 -0800

Put your swap file on one of the other drives.

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:30:42 -0800

For future reference/future searchers who use Macs, OmniDiskSweeper does exactly this.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:07:40 -0800

I use Treesize. Google gets it right.

By: Otis

Otis — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 05:32:41 -0800

Also take a look at this thread. I still use More Space.