C-Drive disk space disappearing

[James B. Holladay]

I am experiencing a problem I have never had before (in last 11 years), the
free space on my hard drive has suddenly began showing a reduction in
available free space.
I have heard that certain operations which backup can get out of hand and
use more space than the operator realizes. Does system restore do this? Any
suggestions would be helpful.

 

[Pegasus]

I am experiencing a problem I have never had before (in last 11 years), the
free space on my hard drive has suddenly began showing a reduction in
available free space.
I have heard that certain operations which backup can get out of hand and
use more space than the operator realizes. Does system restore do this?
Any
suggestions would be helpful.

This question pops up with great regularity and the answer
is always the same: It's your disk and you're in the best
position to find out what's eating your disk space. These
tools may help:

DriveUse:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

 

[James B. Holladay]

I appreciate the response but it leaves me a little uncertain as to what I
should do with the link.

 

[Pegasus]

Hmm. You dowload one of these tools, install it and use it.

 

[lurkswithin]

James B. Holladaywrote:
I am experiencing a problem I have never had before (in last 11
years), the

free space on my hard drive has suddenly began showing a reduction in
available free space.
I have heard that certain operations which backup can get out of hand and
use more space than the operator realizes. Does system restore do this? Any
suggestions would be helpful.

System restore could be one of many programs that can add to your
losing storage space.
Most problems that I have seen with this is hidden log and .dat files
building up and becoming over burdening, along with photo editing
programs making multiple copies of photos and videos.

Duplicate file finder is a free tool that will help you find those
duplicate files and either remove them or rename them:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/dupfilefinder.html

Also these two utillities will help you monitor those hidden dat and
log files that are on your computer.

ATF cleaner
http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=4949&file=10&evp=72ef5a5e927b2276e6a5bc34c89d005a

clean up
http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=4895&file=10&evp=8e77a4e9f7cf63b184456b7df4443a49

You can use disc clean up to also remove unwanted files and under the
advanced tab will allow to delete all but the last restore point

defragging will help also.

 

[James B. Holladay]

Lurkswithin,
You mention disk cleanup. I have tried to run it several times and it
progresses about three blocks and stops. I have left it for several hours
and when I come back it is still sitting at the three block progression from
left to right.
Any ideas on what could be going on with this?
I put in my win disk and replaced the file using msconfig.

 

[Anna]

Lurkswithin,
You mention disk cleanup. I have tried to run it several times and it
progresses about three blocks and stops. I have left it for several hours
and when I come back it is still sitting at the three block progression
from
left to right.
Any ideas on what could be going on with this?
I put in my win disk and replaced the file using msconfig.

James:
There's an indication that your HDD may be failing. Without delay you should
download the HDD diagnostic utility that hopefully will be available from
the manufacturer of your disk and check out the drive.

And I trust you have a current backup of the files on that drive that are
important to you, or better yet, a "clone" of the contents of that drive.
Anna

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps this reason?
Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812248

 

[James B. Holladay]

Bob,
This worked, I am now able to run disk cleanup.
Many thanks,
James

 

[James B. Holladay]

Anna,
Thanks for the tip. I will run the Seagate app and check the drive.
James

 

[Bob I]

You're most welcome. We now return you to your previously scheduled
problems. <VBG>