june gloom on 13/2/2010 at 11:29

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Been noticing something strange today. The Call of Duty World at War patches are fucking ridiculously large- large enough that I'm strongly considering leaving the game installed just so I don't have to go to the trouble of redownloading the patches (my CD burner has decided it is no longer a CD burner, but that's a different issue.) I deleted them from my 2nd partition (drive D) which I have been in a long, losing war with for HD space for years, and all told they took up something on the order of about 3 gigs or so. When I emptied the recycle bin, the total free space on D: jumped from ~350 to... 1gb.

XP MCE, SP2.

Al_B on 13/2/2010 at 22:17

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I personally love (http://windirstat.info/) WinDirStat for giving an overview of where disk space is being used. It always picks up things that I forget about.

There are a few reasons I can think of for deleting files not reclaiming hard drive space (compression, hard links, possibly shadow copies) but I wouldn't have thought that they'd be applicable in your case.