Comments on: CyberNotes: Disk Usage & Hard Drive Visualization

By: Barney

Barney — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:56:51 +0000

This is an AMAZING program. Thought I knew my disk(s) well, but after running this little gem, discovered I was wasting almost 8 gigs on my system disk. OverDisk populated the data window and a huge folder called Recycler stood out clearly. It was at the top level directory on the C: disk. Searching for it (including hidden files and folders) showed nothing. Some research though revealed it was left over from Norton (by Symantec). Even if you deinstall Norton, that folder stays and remains hidden. It’s no longer needed of course. I used a DOS Command and deleted the directory. Got back almost 8 gigs of space. Did a scan and a defrag and the system zooms along much faster now.

By: horaceli

horaceli — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:37:42 +0000

There’s a program called SC diskinfo. I have it zipped at 303KB.

By: NewKreation

NewKreation — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:02:32 +0000

My favorite is still Scanner([steffengerlach.de]) by Steffen Gerlach. It runs stand-alone and looks similar to OverDisk (mentioned above). It can also be run from the context menu in Windows Explorer.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:24:01 +0000

zenwalker wrote:

for linux there is filelight really nice app…. http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/

Nice find. I knew I had seen a utility for Linux that produced graphs like that, but I had a hard time finding it when researching this article.

By: yuwono

yuwono — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:06:11 +0000

I thing Disk Usage & Hard Drive Visualization this good product with a many newest features and many webs that discuss about this product so that this product can be made reference if you buy software.

By: zenwalker

zenwalker — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:28:46 +0000

for linux there is filelight really nice app….
[methylblue.com]