Just upgraded to XP Home. My 10GB disk was never over 5GB used with 98SE. Now the free space is jumping all over the place. Sometimes it shows 2.84GB free, and at other times as little as 200MB. Sometimes I get a Low Disk message. My disk is very clean and I keep it that way. What is eating up all this space? I was told this is a characteristic of XP. Could it be the Restore function? or what.
View 9 RepliesI am getting a msg that says low disk space on the hp recovery disk D and to free spacce on this drive by deleting old files or unnecessary files.the drive states that I have 48.2mb of free space,and the total size is 5.10 gb. When I click on the d drive to see what files are in there it shows a lock picture and I cant access the drive.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell server with a 400GB HD. After installing Windows 2000 Server, Disk Management only reads 10GB of disk space for Partition C: and 120GB for Partition D:. Between drives C: and D: the total disk space is about 130GB. I lost almost 270GB of space. I installed Acronis Disk Director to see if I can recover that 270GB of missing space. Well Acronis only sees the same amount that Windows does.Is there any other utility that I can use to regain that lost space.
View 1 Replies View RelatedXP kept giving me pop ups saying that i have a danerously low disk space.. i deleted all extra files and music and etc and i was fine for a few weeks but lately its doing the same thing. there are 4 accounts on this computer and two of which refuse to log onto the internet (NetZero) one of them freezes whenever you click anything that isnt the start menu.. actually if you click something the whole screen blinks and only the backround is visible for a second and then all the icons return.i cant get into hijackthis to run it and i cant use ad aware because my definitions are a month old and it refuses to dowload new ones, the erro message says that the files cant be read. spybot works but then when it comes time to delete files i get this message " unexpected error in fixing problems (stream-schreibfehler)"
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm really getting aggrevated with trying to get some more free space on my laptop. One day I was running at 80%+. Then I got DSL and my free space went to 57%. I've deleted numerous files through Add/Remove Software and Explorer. I've used WinCleaner One Click, Disk Cleaner, LCleaner. I've scanned for viruses using whatever virus protector Verizon uses and Avast. Both come up with nothing. I've cleaned my history, temp files, and cookies in Internet Options. Can anyone give me some tips on what else I can do without reformatting? My laptop doesn't run slow or act bogged down at all. It runs like normal. I'm just afraid that it's going to crash.
View 3 Replies View RelatedRunning XP sp2.Recnetly,dont know it had anything to do with my kid's download,the pc just failed to respond,if not extremely slow.I did a recovery and it was better but not for long.Now I got the "low disk space message"regularly and i did another disk cleanup;funny thing is no matter how many files I deleted and uninstall,the message is coming back and at time with less space on c:
View 10 Replies View RelatedIv'e installed XP pro on my new computer.after installing all the software i need on the computer i checked how much disk space i'm using before creating an image, and then i encountered a strange thing.When i measure th used disk space using ALT+ENTER from the root directory all the file amounts to about 9GB (all visible and all accounted), but when i check the disk properties it reports over 20GB used.When i created the image, the file weighed over 20GB also even thought i don't have 20GB of files.I know for sure that this is very unlikely that i'm actually using 20GB and that ALT+ENTER reports a wrong size because on my other computer.
View 7 Replies View RelatedYesterday I had 560 MB's of free space on Drive C, today I suddenly received a low disk warning. I had 163 MB's remaining, then a few minutes later I had 90 MB's. I searched Drive C for files/folders over 1 MB that had been modified in the last week and there were a half dozen huge files that were part of a Windows XP update it was trying to install. I turned off the automatic updates so I can do them manually from now on, but can I do anything about those files that were modified today to free up space? One of them is marked a temporary file - can I delete it?
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy issue is my machine displays "not enough disk space " error when i try to paste a file of 4gb though there is enough disk space of over 8gb free in my drive
View 3 Replies View RelatedI don't get it. the more i go on, the more and more disk space seems to vanish into thin air. xp usually takes a couple of gigs up on the hard disk, right? maybe 5 gigs at the very most. i've got 8 gigs taken up by videos in one folder. the programs i've got installed are negligable. the program files folder is 500mb. and yet my disk only has 20 gigs spare on a 40 gig hard disk. i've looked in every folder on the hard disk and i simply can't find any folders with anything of any great size in it. i've defragged the hard drive.
View 11 Replies View Relatedhow to expand the disk space that I have. The primary C drive has the OS on it and it is only about 14GB, and my entire disk is about 50GB, the unallocated space is about 34 GB. I have tried to expand the primary partition unsuccessfully. Do I have to reload the entire OS ? I do not have the origional disk to reload the OS. It is a sony PCG-CRT160 computer with 500 mb ram and approximately a 50 GB primary drive that was partitioned when I got it.
View 11 Replies View Relatedi wanted to copy a cd image 4.18GB ISO format from partition F: NTFS 9GB free to partition D: (FAT32 12GB free space) and windows gives me that crap there is not enough space and i should do a disk clean up.
I made a disk clean up to partition D: and there was 3GB of system restore files!!! maybe coz i deleted 6GB earlier anyway i deleted the system restore files
Only NTFS partions can have files with file size more than 4GB..i hope theres nothing wrong with my windows or my hard disk..and i wanna know if theres a way to move that ISO image..thanx in advance.
Drive C total capacity is around 24GB, when selecting all files in C:, it shows 12GB used, but only 2GB is left in free space. What's wrong?
View 6 Replies View RelatedRecently ive been getting the yellow triangle icon with an ''!'' in it, saying that I have very low disk space. Ive noticed my computer has also been running slower than usual. Maybe half a year ago I came here with the same problem, and someone (forget the name, sorry) posted a link to a program somebody made that clears your disk space up for you. It deleted old unused files, and it worked great. You sort of just clicked on the link on the site, a box came up, and you checked off what you needed to be cleared, and then the program fixed it for you.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi loss close to 100kb evry second, maybe even faster at times, i deleted some files and ended up having 1g of free space, within two days i was back to zero im not even dl things, when i do a scan with spy ware doctor and adaware, i see it looking through my c drive and theres like thousends of pornographic things that when i thy and serch for then in my c drive i cant find, i cant even run adaware or anything because it is never ending, it just shows all this bad stuff forever, i cant wait a week for a scan i just dl hijack this and im not really sure what its gonna help me but i did a scan and im gona send it just because thats why i see on this web site alot......the reason i know im loosing space is my os gives my a pop up message that im running low on disk space
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've had this problem for a couple of days. Every time I start a game like portal or team fortress 2 svchost.exe starts eating cpu. This goes on for a couple of minutes and suddenly svchost goes back to normal cpu usage.
I have 7 different svchost.exe processes in my task manager, 3 system, 2 local service and 2 network service.
I've downloaded process explorer and the svchost that takes all the cpu has the PID 1412, dunno if that info makes any difference but sounds important.
I've searched for svchost.exe to see if there are any more that could be possible viruses but i only found the one in /windows/system32/
I have no idea what could be causing this problem... Also, I apologize if there already is a solution for this in another topic. Didn't find any when I searched.
It says that TOTAL SIZE = 39 GB And Free Space = 5 GB Which means that the size of all files on C is 34 GB But when I select all files including Hidden files and Right Click> Properties, its size of all files is only 27 GB.I did clear recycle bin and disk defragmenter C, but still the same. So why is that?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm facing the following problem: I would like to have my Disk space (750GB) subdivided to accomplish the following
1 - Boot Windows XP Prof SP2 x86
2 - Boot Windows XP Prof SP2 x64
3 - Store my Data Folders and Files separately (to do Backups from one place).
At least once a week I get this message: "To free up disk space, OE can compact messages". I just click "OK". I have 132 GB available so why do I get a message like this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using Windows XP Home Edition. When i try using Norton360 to carry out disk optimization, i get the error message
"Drive C: Insufficient Free Disk Space, Need 15% free"
Last week i installed windows XP Pro on my desktop. It has a 250GB hard drive which has 1 partition (C drive only), NTFS offcourse. I did not format it while installing windows as it has lots of stuff in it. There's over 50GB free and i�ve been removing a lot of stuff from the hard drive to make up some space but in windows i get an error message that i don't have enough disk space, the disk cleanup utility runs cant free up space and i can not install or copy anything in the hard drive. I've noticed that when i deleted some file holding (or not) the shift key the free size goes lower although the files are being deleted from the hard disk.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've got a moderate amount of mp3 albums on my c drive and alot of the time i might download more and just place them on my desktop, anyway i tried to download a good pc game to install and play and i got a pop up saying OUT OF DISKSPACE!! then it asked me to free disk space so iam like how can all the space just be up all of a sudden? what can i do to get more disk space its very annoying.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow can I find where all of my disk space is used up? When I go to my C drive and right click on properties, 28.3 GB used 2.7 free what can I delete since I have run disk clean up and deleted all but the last restore point?
View 2 Replies View RelatedLaptop has 4GB. I defragmented the C disk several times over the last couple of year. Now the used disk space has crept up to nearly that, leaving only 200-300MB at any one time. I have nothing unusual as far as programs go, and I do not have a media player or anything like that hooked up,
At 200-300MB, there is no ability to defragment. I use a CCleaner, and Eusing Registry Cleaner regularly. Wher
Computer has been really low on disk space for a long time. ATF Cleaner IT worked great, took off all temp files and such, all useless stuff that stays on your computer.
I've tried a disk cleanup that apears when space is low but it does pretty much nothing. I only have a 30G HD, but still, that cant possibly take it all up, I have only 19.3 mb left!
I kept my pc running over night and when I woke up the free space in my drive c(contains os) was 700kb. It had dropped from 8gb. I checked system restore I thought it might have made a backup but that was not the case. I did find though a bunch .sqm files in my c drive. I've heard they can be related to live messenger and operation flashpoint ( a game). I have flashpoints sequel and live messenger. I haven't used either in several days. I did defragment the drive one day before this occurred. Can someone please tell me where all that space has gone to?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI try to open a program, or try to edit a photo, my updates even say not enough disk space to install available updates. windows XP service pack 3 504 MB of RAM
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have been downloading something on my computer and now i have 18.8GB left and there is
55.8 gb left.. I have taken some things off the disk..took off a lot of pics and movies and the disk does not seem to move what am i missing.
I have win xp home ed. SP2 and when I go to "C" properties I see as used space 11.1 GB, but if I open "C" then "select all" -- showing hidden files and folders, I have a total of 7.5 GB in used space, how come that I have a difference of almost 3 GB?? Does anyone know?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have win xp home ed. SP2 and when I go to "C" properties I see as used space 11.1 GB, but if I open "C" then "select all" -- showing hidden files and folders -- I have a total of 7.5 GB in used space, how come
that I have a difference of almost 3 GB?? Does anyone know?
Why is my disk space losing mor espace instead of gaining space when I have deleted files from the puter and the recycle, and deleted programs?
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