HDD Size

[Net]

Folks,

I have a problem with the "Low Disk Space" popup flashing every few
minutes. System is a XP Pro, Pentium 3, 128MB RAM.

I had left webcams and microphones switched on when I am not around the
house to listen to sounds and pickup suspected window prowlers.

I am running Intel's Create & Share Software for the purpose and today I
had about 7 hours of footage [uneventful, I may add...]. But once I got
back and scrutinised the recorded data, I didnt save it and removed it.

But the HDD [My Comp+Properties] says that I have only 14MB left [99%+
usage] when I should have something in the range of 14GB.

I performed disk cleanup, ran a full defrag in Safe Mode and even tried
restarting - the HDD space fluctuates upto 140MB and then back to 14 -
15 MB.

Interestingly I tried installing some applications which takeup around
50MB of space, they install fine without problems, but the space left on
HDD remains the same.

How do I get back the GB's I know are there on my drive? At present my
RAM is bigger than the Hard Disk :-(

 

[HillBillyBuddhist]

Folks,

I have a problem with the "Low Disk Space" popup flashing every few
minutes. System is a XP Pro, Pentium 3, 128MB RAM.

But the HDD [My Comp+Properties] says that I have only 14MB left [99%+
usage] when I should have something in the range of 14GB.


How do I get back the GB's I know are there on my drive? At present my
RAM is bigger than the Hard Disk :-(

Sequoia View is an excellent free tool for tracking down mysterious missing
drive space.

It gives a one window graphical representation of what files are taking up
how much space where on a harddrive.

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

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[Bob]

first upgrade that processor and definitely the amount of ram......children
have better PC's..

 

[Guest]

We need to know the make and model of your Mother Board. As it appears you have a new OS on an old system (pentium 3 with only 128MB of RAM) some of them report HDD space incorrectly and need a change in the BIOS to report the size correctly. So MOBO and BIOS would help. A good tool for this is the free Aida32. Before I go I would like to recommend that you get more RAM. Good luck

 

[Guest]

How many Bob do you need to unscrew a light bulb?

I guess You don't know Jack!

 

[Bob]

Stalker....
as if your comments are factual.
Mine are at least getting these people the truth, and not telling them how
to defeat passwords, etc.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Folks,

I have a problem with the "Low Disk Space" popup flashing every few
minutes. System is a XP Pro, Pentium 3, 128MB RAM.

I had left webcams and microphones switched on when I am not around the
house to listen to sounds and pickup suspected window prowlers.

I am running Intel's Create & Share Software for the purpose and today I
had about 7 hours of footage [uneventful, I may add...]. But once I got
back and scrutinised the recorded data, I didnt save it and removed it.

But the HDD [My Comp+Properties] says that I have only 14MB left [99%+
usage] when I should have something in the range of 14GB.

I performed disk cleanup, ran a full defrag in Safe Mode and even tried
restarting - the HDD space fluctuates upto 140MB and then back to 14 -
15 MB.

Interestingly I tried installing some applications which takeup around
50MB of space, they install fine without problems, but the space left on
HDD remains the same.

How do I get back the GB's I know are there on my drive? At present my
RAM is bigger than the Hard Disk :-(
.
common,you don't have pro on that peice 'o' shi*.quit

your lieing.no wunder poeple peek at you.get a new box
fer that pro,like dell's got a cool one fer $500.put your
pro on it your in .

 

[Net]

Net wrote: Folks,

I have a problem with the "Low Disk Space" popup flashing every few
minutes. System is a XP Pro, Pentium 3, 128MB RAM.

I had left webcams and microphones switched on when I am not around
the house to listen to sounds and pickup suspected window prowlers.

I am running Intel's Create & Share Software for the purpose and
today I had about 7 hours of footage [uneventful, I may add...]. But
once I got back and scrutinised the recorded data, I didnt save it
and removed it.

But the HDD [My Comp+Properties] says that I have only 14MB left
[99%+ usage] when I should have something in the range of 14GB.

I performed disk cleanup, ran a full defrag in Safe Mode and even
tried restarting - the HDD space fluctuates upto 140MB and then back
to 14 - 15 MB.

Interestingly I tried installing some applications which takeup
around 50MB of space, they install fine without problems, but the
space left on HDD remains the same.

How do I get back the GB's I know are there on my drive? At present
my RAM is bigger than the Hard Disk :-(

Thanks a lot for the good and the not-so-good suggestions. The problems
solved - a humongous Windows Temp file was the culprit. Now alls well.

I know it is quite an old system, but XP Pro does work! I will replace
when I can afford one. I'm no gamer, nor a graphics suite designer. This
works OK for email on dialup internet and watchdog. I even
have an older 100Mhz Penty! - ... a system with an infantile IE 0.001 !!

Hmmmm... Longhorn is coming 2006 eh?...

 

[Guest]

Factual? Who cares??

Ho and for cracking password go to:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd

Maybee some day you'll know how may Bob you need to
unscrew a light bulb...

Right now, You don't Know Jack!