Hard drive/virus/xp problem

[Ben]

Hello,

The other day, I was using the computer and this bubble popped up and
said "your E: hard drive is full." It's 100 GB, so I knew that couldn't
be right. That partition doesn't have any stored documents, I just put
windows xp on there, then had the documents on another partition.
Anyway, I went to My Computer, clicked on "E: drive" and sure enough,
it was full. So I wondered "what's filling up this drive?"
To get extra space right away, I used the Disk Cleanup to get rid of
Temp Files. But that only cleared out a few GB.
I used the search bar to find files over 10 Gb, and the only file I
found was USB001. I looked at it, and it was 82.5 GB.
This morning, I booted it up, and USB001 had expanded, and the E: had
absolutely no room left. It had taken the space I had opened from the
temp files being removed.
It's in E:\WINDOWS\system32\usb001
I already scanned it for viruses. Maybe I should do a full-system
check, if some other file is just storing information there.

Now, I'm just wondering what to do with it. If I delete it, would
something stop working?

 

[Ben]

I was just working on it again, and being my impatient self, I tried to
delete it.

It said "The file cannot be deleted because it's being used by another
program"

So I got into the Task Manager and started ending processes, one by
one, until I could delete the file.

It turned out to be spoolsv. I looked it up and it said that this
program spools information to the printer or something like that.

I didn't delete it, because it asked "This file is too big for the
recycle bin. Are you sure you want to permanently delete it?"

My printer uses USB002. There are no files waiting to print.

My question still is: What should I do with the file? Is there some way
to clear out USB001?
What kind of file is USB001? I couldn't open it with anything, and I
couldn't find the extension.

Is there some way to download a good USB001, and just delete this one?
Would that make USB001 not work, whatever it does?

If I delete the file, could XP create a brand new one on boot, maybe?
Could I download a new driver to replace the old one?

I scanned the System32 folder for viruses, and it couldn't find
anything. Although, I couldn't update my virus software because the
partition with the software is completely full.

I recently reinstalled the printer driver because it wasn't working.
I'm not sure if that could be the cause, but might as well mention it.


If anybody knows anything about any of this, please say something. I'm
stuck.

 

[Shaun]

I would remove my printer from the device manager.
Remove all printer software from add & remove softwaer if any.
Delete the big file, it could be remade hope not.
Boot the pc check for problems.

Reinstall your printer the way the manual states.