This tutorial will guide you through using SpaceMonger - a Windows utility that scans your hard drive(s) and displays a graphical representation of how your disk is being used, or, where all that space has gone. SpaceMonger works with every version of Windows, from Windows 95 all the way up through Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It works with every filesystem, be it FAT, FAT32, or NTFS, and it can handle network filesystems too. It’s available as a 30 day fully functional demo - after that you’ll have to fork over $19.95 USD for a 1 user license.
- Start by downloading and installing SpaceMonger. The installation is very straight forward - mostly you’ll just click “Next” a bunch of times. Once it’s installed, open it from the programs menu.
- To scan your hard drive, select the Scan button and choose your hard drive from the pull-down menu.
- You’ll be greeted with a friendly reminder that you’re using a demo - click Continue without a license.
- Now SpaceMonger will scan your drive. It only took about 30 seconds to completely scan my almost full 200GB drive.
- Once the scan has completed, the chart of your drive will appear in the right pane. Each of the ‘boxes’ represents a folder on your drive. In the upper-right corner of many of the boxes the total size of the folder (and its sub-folders) and total number of files will be displayed. In the example image below, you can see that my “Documents and Settings” folder is 159.7GB and contains 32,549 files.
- If you hover your mouse over any of the boxes, the folder name, size, and date created will be displayed in a pop-up window.
- Click on the Statistics tab and SpaceMonger will tell you more about your drive and the files on it. A chart containing the type of files, the total size of the disk, used and free space, and a list of files sorted by size are among the stats displayed.
- Back on the Treemap tab, select Folder Tree from the far left menu. This way you can scan a specific folder to find out about the files it contains. Right-click on a folder you’re curious about, and select Scan Folder.
- Click a in the main Treemap window, and the menu at the very bottom of SpaceMonger will tell you all about that folder.
- Use the Zoom tool to zoom in on a folder, revealing even more info.
That wraps up some of the major features of SpaceMonger. Now you know where all that disk space has gone! Explore some more of the SpaceMonger features - there are quite a few of them.
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