No Space On Harddrive

[xxBAFOWxx]

I dont know which forum this would go best in, but this seems the closest.

I have 25 gigs on HD and I had like 10-15 gigs free. then I did some editing on some videos and saved them uncompressed.
they ended up being 8 gigs. I didn't even notice this untill I tried to save somthing else and it said I have no space.

This is when I deleted the videos. But it still says I only have 170 Mb free. I deleted all temp files with "System Mechanic" I cant remember exactly (the processes was fast) but I remember seeing that it deleted files that were gigs in size.

I did a search for any file greater than 100 MB. Only about 6 files came up and they were about 100 mb. So that was nothing. There's no temp files hogging space. I dont know whats taking up all this space.

Should I just re-install windows? I would hate too, since I just reformatted and reinstalled windows clean, just 2 weeks ago.
lol and already my HD is full... sigh

Any better advice?

[edfair]

And the recycle bin is empty?

[xxBAFOWxx]

yeah just thought of that before I checked back here. (hmmm maybe it didn't empty right or somthing)

I just right clicked the recycle bin, and it said " empty norton protected files" as one of the options. I clicked it and bingo! 17 gigs cleared! lol.

the recycle bin icon was empty so it didnt occur to me that norton was holding files in there. So im not a BIG Idiot. lol.

anyway problem solved.

[Iniamyen]

Just remember, anything that you obviously want to do, Windows asks twice (the "recycle bin" for example.) Conversely, when you do something by mistake, there's no way to reverse it.

Makes sense to me.

[Panama Red]

Another area that will use up space on XP is the Restore Points. You can delete all but the latest Restore Point in Disk Cleanup. I clean mine once a week to conserve space.

[trulad]

You might want to consider adding a second hard drive. They are relatively cheap today. I have a second 20gb hard drive just for picture editing. Good backup for important documents also.
trulad