Need advice/diagnosis

The lazy rat

Hello, I have my laptop a couple of years now, it's a packard bell easynote and suits me fine. It has a CDrive capacity of 576GB. For the first year and a half it was fine. The odd download would take up a gig here or a gig there. All was fine, there were over 540 free gb on the cdrive.

I noticed a few months back the the gb all of a sudden were leaping off the computer in chunks. Every time I check the cdrive which is every few days or so a few more gigs have evaporated into thin air. I'm not downloading anything so I just don't understand what's happening. Currently it's 344GB. Is this normal? Any information on this from you techies would be much appreciated.

jsa112

system restore can take up a lot of gigs, temp files take up space, and you could have a program backing things up

it's normal, empty system restore if you need space

The lazy rat

jsa112 wrote: »

empty system restore if you need space

?

jsa112

guessing you are using windows vista...


http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-delete-system-restore-points-in-windows-vis.html

The lazy rat

Windows 7

kodistar

Sounds like faulty hardrive crystal disk to find out if it faulty or not if it runs and fails new hardrive you need.hope i helped.