Hard disk full????

[Guest]

Hi.

I am having a very strange problam with my pc. I have one 150Gb (D drive
and one 60Gb (C. Recently windows has been teeling me that the 150Gb drive
is full. However when i look at the actual contents it only accounts for
about 30Gb or so. Then a few days ago windows started reporting the actual
space taken up; 30Gb, but then again yesterday it told me it was full and i
could not save anything onto it. What is going on??? I have norton ghost on
my pc, drive D: is set as the drive where back ups are made. However i cannot
see how ghost is causing the problem since i can only find 30Gb worth of
files on the disk.

Thanks for all your help.

 

[Travis King]

Does this only occur with a certain program(s) or does this occur with
everything? If it only occurs when you're using one program or one thing,
there may be an error in the program. If this is during when you're using
Windows itself, try using a program to save something into that drive. If
EVERYTHING (the everything is capitalized only for emphasis - not shouting)
you use gives you a disk full message, I don't know what to tell you. I
think by default, Windows actually warns you when you're running low on disk
space. Are you getting any messages warning you that you're low on disk
space or are you only seeing out of disk space messages when you go to save
something? You said that this occurs when you try to save something, so I
assume the latter.

 

[Lem]

Hi.

I am having a very strange problam with my pc. I have one 150Gb (D drive
and one 60Gb (C. Recently windows has been teeling me that the 150Gb drive
is full. However when i look at the actual contents it only accounts for
about 30Gb or so. Then a few days ago windows started reporting the actual
space taken up; 30Gb, but then again yesterday it told me it was full and i
could not save anything onto it. What is going on??? I have norton ghost on
my pc, drive D: is set as the drive where back ups are made. However i cannot
see how ghost is causing the problem since i can only find 30Gb worth of
files on the disk.

Thanks for all your help.

Several possibilities.

Did you ever see the whole 150GB listed as available (before you first started
saving Ghost files)? If not (or you don't remember) see "Windows XP Does Not
Recognize All Available Disk Space" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316505/en-us

Are you looking at all of the files on D: ? That is, have you set Windows
Explorer to view "hidden files and folders" as well as "protected operating
system files"? Set these options from the Tools | View menu in Windows Explorer.

Do you have System Restore enabled on the D: drive? You need not do this,
because SR only backs up system files -- not Ghost backup files -- and moreover,
the default for SR is to use 12% of the harddrive, or 18GB on a 150 GB drive.

Perhaps some of your older Ghost backup files are in the D: Recycle Bin. The
default for RB is 10% of your hard drive. That's another 15GB. You probably
don't need that large a recycle bin on your Ghost backup drive.

Unless you enlarged the sizes for SR and RB, that still only accounts for 30GB
(your Ghost files) + 18GB (SR) + 15GB (RB) = 63GB, and the low disk space warning
shouldn't come on unless you're down to 200 MB or less.

Have you run the "Disk Cleanup" tool for the D: drive?