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losing hard drive space

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  • #32
    JonathanAnon
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    moggser wrote: »
    i never ever use besides thats gone off the pc i did a fresh re-install and its still happining

    This is the confusing bit to be honest.. What do you mean when you say fresh install .. did you wipe the drive and reinstall Windows from scratch or just install over the Windows that was there.

    Have you tried booting to safe mode..?


  • #33
    moggser
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    . did you wipe the drive and reinstall Windows from scratch or just install over the Windows that was there.
    ?


    yeah thats what i did^^^^

    no i never went into safe mode as i dont quite know what im looking for when i go in there


  • #34
    JonathanAnon
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    moggser wrote: »
    yeah thats what i did^^^^ no i never went into safe mode as i dont quite know what im looking for when i go in there

    well what I would be interested in is if the PC exhibits the same characteristics... i.e. eating up the disk space.. when you are in safe mode... Safe Mode doesnt load up any non-essential software, and I think it could be one of those non-essential applications that could be causing the problem...

    Also, what is it that you DO see in normal mode... how are you viewing that the disk space is being eaten up..


  • #35
    moggser
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    i just go i n and check it every so often now seen as i sussed the problem im more wary of it now so i look at the c drive evry half hour to a hour im online about hour and half tonight and so far 300 MB is gone and ive done nothing bar browse boards and few other things
    no downloading


  • #36
    JonathanAnon
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    If you could source the directory that is "growing" you will be able to find the source of the problem..

    http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

    If you download the free version of TreeSize, you should be able to identify which folder is growing, and thus identify the application causing the problem..


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  • #37
    moggser
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    I done that earlier when I was at the pc
    but when I looked at it when it was done it was lookin in to
    a bag of spiders dancin the macereana. Ie it made no odds to me
    I understood some of it but the rest tumble weeded it's way by lol


  • #38
    woolymammoth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭woolymammoth


    moggser, +1 on the treesize. Overdisk is another good tool for XP tat will display things visually for you!

    to be honest, the virus checking was all good, but it's better to have a look at where all the space is going in the first place. It's one of those "simplest answers is the best" things! It's too easy to overthink things, sometimes. have a look at whee all the space is being taken up then report back to us.


  • #39
    moggser
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    Cheers for helpin lads

    I'll run the tree size in the mornin and post a screen shot or
    two and see if you can tell what's what


  • #40
    Capt'n Midnight
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    alternative folder . file size viewers , sequoiaview / spacemonger 1.4


    also check the size of the swap file this will grow bigger in use and should settle down after a while

    temp folder also grows and don't blame windows since this is used by apps , but since you have ccleaner installed you should have already ruled out this , if you haven't might be time to see what it says

    are you really running out of space ?
    if you had a 500GB drive you could go a very long time before there was a shortage, and not waste too much time over it, if you loosing 1GB a day then wait a week to see if it settles down before hunting the white whale


    auto save can cause problems on some systems, too
    don't get me started on backup exec log files on the system drive of a server , delete the logs and you have to reboot (out of hours :mad:) and then you have free space but have to figure out how to rebuild the logs in another folder so you can actually restore files



    background down loads for things like patches can easily reach a few 100 MB


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