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I’ve come across an odd problem on PC that seemed to have start yesterday. Essentially, I’m loosing hard drive space and I don’t know where it’s going.
Yesterday I noticed this problem when I got a low disk space warning which I found odd since I had nearly 3gig left the last time I looked. I haven’t installed anything new onto the drive (I use my backup drive to install things like games) and if I have installed something, it’s certainly not been over 3gig.
I don’t know what this problem is, I’ve tried a disk clean up, deleted whatever spyware was on my PC and even uninstalled a few programs that should have freed up plenty of room yet it hasn’t changed a thing. I’m still under a gig on my C drive and it’s continuing to decrease.
So my dilemma, what do I do and more importantly, if anyone can help, what’s causing it? I’m planning a defrag later but in case that doesn’t work I’ll need to find an alternative solution. In the meantime I’ll have to install and divert downloads into my D drive while I figure out what the problem is and the best solution to it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Yesterday I noticed this problem when I got a low disk space warning which I found odd since I had nearly 3gig left the last time I looked. I haven’t installed anything new onto the drive (I use my backup drive to install things like games) and if I have installed something, it’s certainly not been over 3gig.
I don’t know what this problem is, I’ve tried a disk clean up, deleted whatever spyware was on my PC and even uninstalled a few programs that should have freed up plenty of room yet it hasn’t changed a thing. I’m still under a gig on my C drive and it’s continuing to decrease.
So my dilemma, what do I do and more importantly, if anyone can help, what’s causing it? I’m planning a defrag later but in case that doesn’t work I’ll need to find an alternative solution. In the meantime I’ll have to install and divert downloads into my D drive while I figure out what the problem is and the best solution to it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Well what ever caused it I've somehow managed to stop. My C drive is back up to 1.5gig and not decreasing, though I'm sure I should have plenty more space than that.
Thanks for the help everyone, I'll go hunting for this missing Hard Drive space in the morning, I just hope I don't stumble on any Granny Porn ~:-{
Thanks for the help everyone, I'll go hunting for this missing Hard Drive space in the morning, I just hope I don't stumble on any Granny Porn ~:-{
The TEMP file might be where your problem is lying.
How about Run -> "CLEANMGR"?
EDIT: Nevermind, you already have.
How about Run -> "CLEANMGR"?
EDIT: Nevermind, you already have.
Do a scan disk to see if the values have been incorrectly calculated.
Also look for some remnants. I found a temp file in a folder in My Documents that was several gigabytes in size. And it was ancient. Sometimes you just get weird stuff.
1. Right-click on Documents and Settings -> Properties
2. "Oh my god, 15GB"
3. Right-click on all folders in Documents and Settings -> Properties
4. "It seems my brothers account accouts for 14.8GB of that"
5. Right-click on brothers My Documents -> Properties
6. "Wow, 14.7GB"
7. Repeat until vast collection of Granny porn is discovered.
8. Enjoy.
Or something like that. Basically try and track down any folders that are growing/much too big, starting from C:/
2. "Oh my god, 15GB"
3. Right-click on all folders in Documents and Settings -> Properties
4. "It seems my brothers account accouts for 14.8GB of that"
5. Right-click on brothers My Documents -> Properties
6. "Wow, 14.7GB"
7. Repeat until vast collection of Granny porn is discovered.
8. Enjoy.
Or something like that. Basically try and track down any folders that are growing/much too big, starting from C:/
How would I go about doing a Manual Survey?
Do a manual survey of the folders on your computer to find out what is growing, or is bigger than it should be.
I’ve come across an odd problem on PC that seemed to have start yesterday. Essentially, I’m loosing hard drive space and I don’t know where it’s going.
Yesterday I noticed this problem when I got a low disk space warning which I found odd since I had nearly 3gig left the last time I looked. I haven’t installed anything new onto the drive (I use my backup drive to install things like games) and if I have installed something, it’s certainly not been over 3gig.
I don’t know what this problem is, I’ve tried a disk clean up, deleted whatever spyware was on my PC and even uninstalled a few programs that should have freed up plenty of room yet it hasn’t changed a thing. I’m still under a gig on my C drive and it’s continuing to decrease.
So my dilemma, what do I do and more importantly, if anyone can help, what’s causing it? I’m planning a defrag later but in case that doesn’t work I’ll need to find an alternative solution. In the meantime I’ll have to install and divert downloads into my D drive while I figure out what the problem is and the best solution to it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Yesterday I noticed this problem when I got a low disk space warning which I found odd since I had nearly 3gig left the last time I looked. I haven’t installed anything new onto the drive (I use my backup drive to install things like games) and if I have installed something, it’s certainly not been over 3gig.
I don’t know what this problem is, I’ve tried a disk clean up, deleted whatever spyware was on my PC and even uninstalled a few programs that should have freed up plenty of room yet it hasn’t changed a thing. I’m still under a gig on my C drive and it’s continuing to decrease.
So my dilemma, what do I do and more importantly, if anyone can help, what’s causing it? I’m planning a defrag later but in case that doesn’t work I’ll need to find an alternative solution. In the meantime I’ll have to install and divert downloads into my D drive while I figure out what the problem is and the best solution to it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.