XP HDD Problem

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MGE

Hi,

I'm getting a weird problem with XP Pro SP1a.
After various amounts of uptime, usually about 7.5 hours,
I get a pop up bubble saying space on my D: Drive, is
running low.
Sometimes, it happens after only 3 hours.
I can't figure out what is causing this error, because
once the OS thinks its partition is full, nothing works
correctly that needs disk space as a buffer. (Attaching
files to emails, java, etc)
The swap file is located on another partition away from
the OS, so it can't be that.

Here's the hardware of my pc:
Dual Intel PIII 1GHz,
1GB PC133 133MHz SDRAM (All same type)
Supermicro 370DDE Motherboard w/ Onboard Promise ATA100
RAID
Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti 4600 128MB DDR
Soundblaster Live 5.1
D-Link DFE-530TX 10/100Mbps NIC
Pioneer 16x DVD
Western Digital 120GB 8MB Cache ATA100 Hard Disk

The hard disk used to be located on the RAID controller,
untill I flashed the firmware, and the controller
demanded I reformat. So I moved the disk to the standard
IDE controller.

The Disk is partitioned like so:
OS(D:) : 10GB,
Apps(C:) : 40GB,
Games(E:) : 40GB,
Media(F:) : 21GB.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

MGE
 
I know for a fact its not the temporary files / internet
files, as when it runs the disk clean up wizard, the most
space that free's up is about 8MB, which still doesn't
account for the missing 7GB that have somehow been used
up since boot.
As soon as I reboot, without doing any type of disk clean
up, I get 7GB free on the OS partition again.
And within 8 hours, its gone again.

I think I may have to low-level format the disk, and re-
partition again to make this problem go away.
 
my suggestion is to try File Monitor (its free) from
www.sysinternals.com. Set the filter to only log writes,
leave the PC running, return when Windows starts
complaining about disk space, browse the list of events to
see what processes have been writing to your disk, and
where they have been writing.

Obviously if you actively use the computer while its
monitoring, the log will fill up extremely quickly... best
if you can have as little open as possible.

cheers,
myth-unit
 
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