What is taking up so much space on my hard drive?

Question

Ok so I have a 135Gb for my notebook that is roughly 4 months old. And I have no idea what is taking all of my hard drive up. I know my iTunes library (which I have consolidated) is taking up a little less than 20 gigs. My Games, with all files and the programs included are taking up approx. 10 gigs. And finally I have some 17 gigs of movies I have saved, and probably about 10 other gigs of random things I put on my comp (programs and pictures and such). And I know that a computer comes with things that take up space, like the operating system and basic programs and things... but where is the other like 75 or so gigs? Like I would love to use that you know?
Any help you can offer would be great and much appreciated. Thanks in advance and peace. And if I can avoid downloading a program to do something that would be great too, but anything to free up more space would be awesome. Peace.

Answer 1

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Change your folder settings to view hidden files/folders: open any folder > click on tools > choose folder options > from the 'View' tab select "show hidden files and folders". Then search for all temp folders, delete them as necessary or if too large.

Also, if you are using a paging file/ has configured your notebook to hibernate, Each may be using at least the size of your RAM.

Answer 2

Did you check to see if your hard drive is partitioned? Open my computer and you will see C drive, do you see another icon that looks like C drive thats not a dvd drive?

If so thats where the rest of your space is, and you could use that drive to say store all your media for convenience.

Answer 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbvOXzOT…

Answer 4

The System Restore can use a fair bit of hard drive space, especially if you have a lot of restore points. Deleting all but the most recent ones will release space. Also run a Disc clean to remove any temporary internet files etc.
If you back up your music, movies etc to an external hard drive, you could remove them from the main drive, if you need more space.