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Some people have reported 10 - 40 times longer. It will appear to be stuck at 100% for extremely long times. The correct usage from 1.6 onwards is c:\>sdelete -z c:Įdit 3: There is a 2.0 version of sdelete and sdelete64. The sdelete tool is easy to use and easy to get.Įdit 2: As scottbb pointed out in his answer below, there was a September 2011 change to the tool (version 1.6) The -c and -z options have changed meanings. I have the impression this does what I want. I used the -c switch from the 2nd invocation and this was quite fast (syntax only valid for older versions before V1.6): c:\>sdelete -c c: (OUTDATED!) p passes Specifies number of overwrite passes (default is 1) c Zero free space (good for virtual disk optimization) I had a look at the sdelete's help: C:\WINDOWS\system32>sdelete /? On Linux I do it like this (as a user): cdĮdit 1: I decided to use sdelete from the accepted answer. Should run from inside windows and not from a disk. Only one pass (this is not for security reasons but for compression, we are backing up virtual machines). It should probably write an as big as possible file full of 0and erase it afterwards. I would like a simple open source tool (or at least free) for that. We hope this information was very helpful for you.How to zero fill a virtual disk's free space on windows for better compression? That is it! This is how to see your hard drive space. Select a hard drive and right-click, then click “Properties”. Now, you will see your hard drive under “Hard Disk Drives”.Move your mouse cursor on “Computer” or “My Computer”, and right-click, then click “Properties”.Click “Start” button in the left-bottom of your screen.You can check the hard drive’s total capacity, used space, and free space.įollow this instruction to check hard drive space: (For Windows 7 and Windows Vista).Now, you will see your hard drive under “Devices and drives”.In Windows 8, move your mouse cursor to the left-bottom edge of screen, then right-click.🙂 🙂 🙂 Follow this instruction to check hard drive space: (For Windows 8) pictures, music, documents, games …) When your hard drive is full, you can make free space by deleting files you currently have.

It is important to know how much free space you have because without free space, you will not be able to save more information to your computer.

This blog post was created to help people who do not know how much disk space they got left on Windows operating system. How to find remaining hard drive space in Windows 8, 7, and Vista