Hard drive space

G

Guest

I have a 60 GB harddrive. After initial install of beta 2 and installation
of Office 2003, about 45 GB were left. Then, as days past, the disk space
would slowly decrease. Now, there is only 39 GB left. And no, I have not
installed other programs besides Office. I tried Disk Cleanup, but hard
drive space still slowly decreases day by day. If anyone knows why this is
occuring or has a solution, please reply to my post.

Thank you.

ZAZ
 
A

Alan Simpson

Don't know for sure. But a likely suspect would be System Protection, which
can grow to 15% of the available space.
 
J

John Barnett MVP

As Alan suggests it is probably due to System restore. With a deafult of 12%
of disk space allocated to system restore points the drop from 45GB to 39GB
is at least consistent. If everything is running fine on your PC and you
don't think you will need to system restore points already create try
turning system restore off (control panel>system Icon> system restore tab)
and then checking the available disk space. If the disk space increased then
this is obviously what is causing the problem. Afterwards you can always
re-enable system restore again so it continues to monitor the situation.
At the moment my system restore only hold information for just one day which
means i can't really use the feature. Good job i have backup images:)

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G

Guest

Thanks John!

ZAZ :)

John Barnett MVP said:
As Alan suggests it is probably due to System restore. With a deafult of 12%
of disk space allocated to system restore points the drop from 45GB to 39GB
is at least consistent. If everything is running fine on your PC and you
don't think you will need to system restore points already create try
turning system restore off (control panel>system Icon> system restore tab)
and then checking the available disk space. If the disk space increased then
this is obviously what is causing the problem. Afterwards you can always
re-enable system restore again so it continues to monitor the situation.
At the moment my system restore only hold information for just one day which
means i can't really use the feature. Good job i have backup images:)

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org

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either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
reliability or content of this mail. The Author shall not be liable for any
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of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this mail..
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