were has all my hdd space gone??

When you boot the computer up and press F8 you will get a menu. One of the options that comes up is to boot in DOS mode. However I saw XP's version DOS mode once and never want to have to go through that again!
 
With older ones you get honest-to-goodness, pure console-based, full-screen DOS. With XP you get DOS running in a window. Don't worry about it, it's a macho hacker thing. ;)
 
To get rid of temp files goto Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. Run the app and it should remove all temp files.

To get into the hidden files all you have to do is goto your C:\ drive and up at the top should be the tools bar.
 
ThePenguinCometh said:
You can't find scandisk? Idiot! It's simple - Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management, Storage, right-click the Volume, Tools, Options, Check Now button, Select Options, Start. And you couldn't figure that out for yourself? :P

http://www.duxcw.com/faq/win/xp/scandisk.htm
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Actually it is not ScanDisk in XP it is Chk disk and to clean temp files you can also go to My computer , right click on your c drive , click on properties and near the botom right it says cleanup, click and check temp files.
 
i got another problem, in my programs partition i was installing ut2k4, it encounterd an error, so i deleated the 4gb of installation it left behind then, i look and its still bieng read in there (in used space on partition properties it shoes about 5gb used, now i looked in the partition and there was one big folder with only about 195mb data in, i have show hidden files ticked, so were has all this space gone, will it be restored when i restart windows?
 
I hope CC cleaner is improved because I used it a couple of years ago on a Win98 system and it took TOO MUCH out.In other words it wouldn't boot afterwards.
 
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