Storage: Hard drive showing up full
Hard drive showing up full
by drosen24 - 10/4/09 4:38 PMHi Everyone,
Having a slight issue with my laptop (Dell XPS m1330, Vista Home Prem). The hard drive is 298GB after being formatted. The MyComputer screen is showing that only have 24.8GB free, which is impossible. I ran "JDiskReport" and it said that I am only using 99.5GB, so then where did the extra 175GB go?. So my question is what could be causing this? Symantec Endpoint Protection does not show any viruses...
Thanks in advance,
David
Did you
by deniceels - 10/8/09 9:52 AM In reply to: Hard drive showing up full by drosen241) check whether any recovery point is set for the primary drive (C:)?
2) Recycle bin been cleaned completely?
3) a D-drive that is not an optical drive? (That's likely used as a
recovery partition to factory-settings).
4) Done some OS updates? (It usually leaves "Uninstall" folders in
events which you encounter issues with updates).
5) Video/Photo-editing - caches files being stored (and not purged
when not needed).
That's my take.
Are you able to view
by deniceels - 10/10/09 12:18 AM In reply to: Did you by deniceelshidden files? Main C drive will contain a hybernating file, usually as large as your memory, expanded as more apps are running, windows updates of service packs.
Are there any anomalies in the execution of any apps or internet surfing such as lagging or unresponsiveness? Did you compress your drive?
Did this 2GB gets freed upon the next restart of the OS and subsequently used up?
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by drosen24 - 10/10/09 2:24 AM In reply to: Are you able to view by deniceelsNothing weird going on with the computer right now. A few weeks back the CPU was maxing out consistently but that has since stopped. Which leads me to believe that it might be some soft of virus/trojan/whatever, but none of my scans are picking up anything Symantec Endpoint or Ad-Aware. When I restarted, it went back up to 17gb free...
Thanks for your consistent help, I really appreciate it!
If your
by deniceels - 10/11/09 1:08 AM In reply to: Are you able to view by deniceelslocal A/v not picking up, have you tried those online ones like Kaspersky, F-secure or even norton or McAfee's?
You may probably try getting those process-viewers to see if any out-of-norm activites running in the background and disable those to see (with caution as usual).
The worst case I did to mine was to take out the harddisk (laptop), plug in to an external case and scan from another system (I'm paranoid as well as I did let loose a virus once deliberately for testing and coincidently it needed a good formatting for testing Win7 RC).
But given the space does gets freed up is suggesting a program is using it for temporary storage. Decreasing the temp space allocation for webbrowsing and see if it helps. Furthermore, if you view DivX or any flash videos online, they'll get stored locally before being purged after awhile. Same goes for mp3s online
Thanks for the effort
by drosen24 - 10/11/09 8:04 AM In reply to: If your by deniceelsThanks for all of your help. After searching online for hours, I finally found the issue. Something to do with the amount of space being used by ShadowCopy..
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/26/how-to-change-and-limit-system-restore-storage-space-usage-size-in-vista-with-vssadmin/
Thanks again!
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