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Storage: Help! Hard-drive space doing the disappearing and reappearing act!
- 10/9/09 1:29 PM
Re: disc cleanup
by Kees Bakker - 10/13/09 2:17 AM
In reply to: Disc Clean Up Wizard by celler dweller
I seem to remember it was called a wizard in XP. But in Vista it's simply Disc Cleanup. So you're certainly on the right track.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Delete-files-using-Disk-Cleanup tells you where to find the option to clean system restore data. That's under the More options ... button!
Kees
Disc Clean Up?
by celler dweller - 10/14/09 12:17 AM In reply to: Re: disc cleanup by Kees Bakker
Sorry to be a bother but in following those steps there is No "More Options" tag I can find in Vista because there is No "clean files from all users" choice! Its just C: J: D:?
It seems I'm always spending hours trying to track down new functions & never quite get there??
Thanks so much for your time! Steve
Maybe ...
by Kees Bakker - 10/14/09 12:20 AM
In reply to: Disc Clean Up? by celler dweller
if you're not an Admin you can only clean your own files, not files from other users? That would be a reason why the choice doesn't appear.
Kees
Eureka !!!!!
by celler dweller - 10/14/09 12:32 AM In reply to: Re: disc cleanup by Kees Bakker
I found it! It's a miracle Thank you!
$NTUninstall..... folders
by msnataraj2003 - 10/24/09 6:52 AM In reply to: Re: backup of Windows updates by Kees Bakker
Thanks for the suggestion. I did find a lot of folders $NTUninstall..... each of considerable size. But when I attempted to delete them (from Search results), "cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disk" appeared. Is there a way to delete these files?
Re: $NTUninstall
by Kees Bakker - 10/24/09 6:56 AM
In reply to: $NTUninstall..... folders by msnataraj2003
In My Computer or Windows Explorer, go into the Windows folder and try deleting from there. It never failed me, that way.
Kees
HDD Space
by swamprat - 10/10/09 11:07 AM In reply to: Help! Hard-drive space doing the disappearing and reappearing act! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Don't want to step into something that I don't know so let me say this carefully. Had a similar problem and found it was in part from using Hibernate in lieu of a full shutdown. You may benefit from reboot if you are consistently using hibernate/sleep. It did free up much of my disk space.
guess there is a mal ware on your system
by MOHAMMED UMAR10 - 10/10/09 8:47 PM In reply to: Help! Hard-drive space doing the disappearing and reappearing act! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
there are viruses which eat up disk space some take seconds some might take hours to fill your disk space i suggest you go to "HTTP://WWW.GOHACKING.COM" TO KNOW ABOUT ONE SUCH VIRUS AND MAY GET INFO ON HOW TO RESOLVE YOUR PROBLEM try checking in task manager for weird processess going on ...check the dll on your system and their signature bcoz if a virus comes with a dll then clearing the garbage is not easy last if have tried everything told by wellwishers then only one way out u know....formatting your system (humble info:formatting your hard disk for more than 3 times reduces its performance capacity........umar
in case u get any solid break through in this pls mail it to me i am definitely a newbie.....umarin[at]in[dot]com
hd space being eaten.
by tuskerkf - 10/11/09 10:09 PM In reply to: Help! Hard-drive space doing the disappearing and reappearing act! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Could be a virus of some sort. However was wondering do you happen to download torrents, cuz torrents allocate space for data that wasn't even downloaded yet. Something to check if you use torrents and the like.
Hope this helps. later.
torrents
by eeyore08 - 10/11/09 11:53 PM In reply to: hd space being eaten. by tuskerkfThanks. There did seem to be a problem there.
Harddrive space
by dellmar72 - 10/11/09 10:14 PM In reply to: Help! Hard-drive space doing the disappearing and reappearing act! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
This problem maybe not that hard to resolve try to perform 3 steps drive clean-up, then scandisk, defragment your drive! After if still there's no effect... Better try Tweak Powerpack to clean unnecessary load files, maybe there's not space in your drive... ok! Goodluck and God bless
Tweak
by eeyore08 - 10/11/09 11:51 PM In reply to: Harddrive space by dellmar72Thanks for the info to a great tool. Works like a charm!
http://www.tweaknow.com/powerPack.html
Magical harddrive
by eeyore08 - 10/13/09 2:35 PM In reply to: Tweak by eeyore08Hi,
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the great suggestions. The Treesize program showed me where all the space was being used and since I cleaned up that one huge file of 181GB my C drive has stayed at a constant. I then ran the Tuneup Utilities 2009 program and got rid of some more junk. So far I have 192GB free up from just over 6GB. My computer runs much better after the cleanup and no magical disappearing acts have happened yet.. I hope it stays this way.
Thanks to all!
Lorilou
i fixed the same type of problem and u may find it helpful
by debritum - 10/14/09 10:08 AM In reply to: Help! Hard-drive space doing the disappearing and reappearing act! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The fact is that Vista makes System Restore backups which usually consume a lot of hard-disk space...
What you have to do is delete the system restore points...
Just Right-click on My computer...Click properties....Then on the left hand panel Click on System Protection...Then a dialog box would open up and and uncheck the drive where System Restore property is enabled....Then a small dialog box would open on which u click ..Turn System Restore OFF...Then click Apply....And thats done...reckeck your harddisk space....
hope this might help you....
Cheers...
Deb
Taming System restore to reclaim space
by caryenochr - 10/18/09 11:55 AM In reply to: Help! Hard-drive space doing the disappearing and reappearing act! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
These articles show you how to reign in System Restore's Shadow Copy feature to reclaim as much as 30% of your disk depending upon your version of Vista.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1026&tag=nl.e101
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1077&tag=leftCol;post-1026
What they don't tell you is that how to run a CMD prompt as Administrator is a bit tricky. You can't just right-click the existing shortcut and run as an admin. Navigate to cmd.exe in your Windows folder and right-click. Select "send to desktop as shortcut." Change the advanced properties of the shortcut to run as administrator and then launch it. You'll get a UAC prompt. Then you can follow the steps in these articles.
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