Today, I encountered a problem where the Windows Server’s hard drive (C:) was filling up and we couldn’t find out why. To get a better handle on the server and how space was being allocated, I did a quick Google on the problem and ran across this tool: WinDirStat.

Here’s the description from the web site:

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants). WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

• The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
• The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
• The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

In simple terms, it tells you where all the “bodies are buried.” And, in the case of our Windows server, it was some log files generated by PC Health eating up quite a bit of room since 2006. To regain our hard drive space, we deleted the log files which appear as date ranges with an extension of HDMP.

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