Hard drivve space

I have a new HP Laptop that I have had about three months and it has a 100GB
hard drive in it. I am looking at the available disk space left on the drive
it shows only 10GB left and I have hardly loaded any software or data to this
computer. What would be eating all my space and how can I quickly figure out
where that data is stored so i can see if it is able to be removed?

Thanks
-Scott

Do you have automatic backup enabled?
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"Scott Micale" <> wrote in message
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>I have a new HP Laptop that I have had about three months and it has a
>100GB
> hard drive in it. I am looking at the available disk space left on the
> drive
> it shows only 10GB left and I have hardly loaded any software or data to
> this
> computer. What would be eating all my space and how can I quickly figure
> out
> where that data is stored so i can see if it is able to be removed?
>
> Thanks
> -Scott

Bob,

I don't believe I have automatic backups enabled but how can I tell?

-Scott

"Bob" wrote:

> Do you have automatic backup enabled?
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> *Report back, please*
>
>
> "Scott Micale" <> wrote in message
> news:5B575FE1-67DB-42DE-AFDA-...
> >I have a new HP Laptop that I have had about three months and it has a
> >100GB
> > hard drive in it. I am looking at the available disk space left on the
> > drive
> > it shows only 10GB left and I have hardly loaded any software or data to
> > this
> > computer. What would be eating all my space and how can I quickly figure
> > out
> > where that data is stored so i can see if it is able to be removed?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Scott
>
>

Scott Micale;680072 Wrote:
> Bob,
>
> I don't believe I have automatic backups enabled but how can I tell?
>
> -Scott
>
> "Bob" wrote:
> > > >
> > > Do you have automatic backup enabled?
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> > > *Report back, please*
> > >
> > >
> > > "Scott Micale" <ScottMicale@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:5B575FE1-67DB-42DE-AFDA-1F694D7D5CA5@xxxxxx
> > >
> > > > >


Hi Scott,

If you look at step 17, you can tell if automatic backup is on if the
button has "Turn off" on it.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...kup-files.html


Other possibilities to check:

1) System Restore - You can check to see how much space is being used
(allocated) in this tutorial. See the related links in the tutorial if
you want to turn off System Restore.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...isk-space.html


2) HP Recovery Manager - Since you have a HP computer, it comes with
the HP Recovery Manager program. I would check to see if that has any
backup options set.

'HP Backup and Recovery Manager'
(http://h20331.www2.hp.com/hpsub/cach...0-225-121.html)


Hope this helps,
Shawn


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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:21:00 -0700, Scott Micale
<> wrote:

>I have a new HP Laptop that I have had about three months and it has a 100GB
>hard drive in it. I am looking at the available disk space left on the drive
>it shows only 10GB left and I have hardly loaded any software or data to this
>computer. What would be eating all my space and how can I quickly figure out
>where that data is stored so i can see if it is able to be removed?

Use a program such as ShowMan
<http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/software/disk.html#ShowMan> or
SC-DiskInfo <http://www.soft-central.net/diskinfo.php> to tell you how
your disk is being used.

>
>Thanks
>-Scott