smething is eating my hard drive space up

[FloridaRob]

I have a Sony Vaio partioned hard drive with 28 gig on the C and 90 gig on the D drive. (i know it is old but it still works reasonably well) I have moved everything I can move to the D drive but only have less than 2% space left on the C drive.

I recently removed Norton Anti Virus and replaced it with AVG Anti virus and since that I did that, it seems as tho I am losing C drive space by the day. I started with about 15% space left when I made the switch and that was about two months ago.

I am on borrowed time until it crashes. I have gone into the C drive on teh computer and removed everything that is non essential but I lose more and more every day.

Any ideas on what is happening and what I can do before the end of the world comes and the C drive crashes.

Is there a ghost drive that keeps coying the things I am doing and doubling up the C drive. I have no idea.

Any expert or non expert advice is appreciated.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

Get yourself a cigar and a hammer.


Light the cigar and blow smoke into the drive thingie. Whatever's eating it won't like the smoke so when it comes running out, whack it with the hammer.

Problem solved.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Surfing p0rn does that. :laugh2:

Could be many things. Are you running XP? Though this will probably work on Vista too. Right click on the start button and choose Explore. Then right click on your C drive and click properties. Then hit the button that says, Disk Cleanup. (if you haven't already)

Then go into your control panel and click on Add and Remove Programs. Remove anything you don't need / use.

Then download something like TreeSize and run it to see where the damage is being done. (what directories are eating the space)

 

[Kangaroo]

go into your temporary folder clean that out

Go into internet explorer and delete temporary Internet files

Right click on recycle bin and hit empty

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

Go here: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Download the free version and run it. It will tell you exactly where the folders are that are taking up all the space on C: or any other drive. From there you can determine what's needed and what's not and clean it up as well as hopefully find a solution as to why it keeps growing.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Go here: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Download the free version and run it. It will tell you exactly where the folders are that are taking up all the space on C: or any other drive. From there you can determine what's needed and what's not and clean it up as well as hopefully find a solution as to why it keeps growing.

You're two hours late and a dollar short. I already linked him to Treesize. :laugh2:

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

I once had a drive reporting its size and free space incorrectly to Windows and just running a quick built-in Windows error-check fixed it. I doubt that's it, but better to try a simple solution like that first and see what happens.

 

[FloridaRob]

I ran treesize and it looks as tho I have about 15 gigs of space tied up Documents and Settign of which it looks as tho 8 gigs is tied up in two different email accounts. I usually have attachements to my sent items. Is there a way to save the emails without deleting them. If I try to compact them, they crash teh computer. Any alternatives to just delete them.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I ran treesize and it looks as tho I have about 15 gigs of space tied up Documents and Settign of which it looks as tho 8 gigs is tied up in two different "email accounts" . I usually have attachements to my sent items. Is there a way to save the emails without deleting them. If I try to compact them, they crash teh computer. Any alternatives to just delete them.

right.

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

I ran treesize and it looks as tho I have about 15 gigs of space tied up Documents and Settign of which it looks as tho 8 gigs is tied up in two different email accounts. I usually have attachements to my sent items. Is there a way to save the emails without deleting them. If I try to compact them, they crash teh computer. Any alternatives to just delete them.

What are you using for email?

 

[FloridaRob]

Outlook Express is all I use. ONe of them always timed out when I sent items due to some glitch the tech had no idea how to fix, so I created a 2nd but never deleted the original one.

I always kept the emails for legal purposes but am more worried now about my computer crashing than the state wanting to look at my past files.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I used to have a problem with one XP machine that would build up a huge temp file until the drive ran out of space. Once I deleted that file everything was fine.

 

[FloridaRob]

all I have today is delete my sent items in one email account and it says now I am at 0" free space on my C drive. I have just achieved level 10 in panic.

YEager, I use XP home addition. Where is that file you deleted.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

google and then run CCleaner.

If that doesn't work, light the cigar....

 

[FloridaRob]

google and then run CCleaner.

If that doesn't work, light the cigar....

that gave me about 3% free. Now I am manually deleting emails. I will see you guys after football season. I should be finished them.

 

[StanleySpadowski]

Did you run the registry cleaner along with it? That may get you a little more space also.

 

[FloridaRob]

Did you run the registry cleaner along with it? That may get you a little more space also.

yea, I am still a 3%. I have spent the past45 minutes deleting emails and I still have not increased any space. Something is not right.

 

[Khartun]

yea, I am still a 3%. I have spent the past45 minutes deleting emails and I still have not increased any space. Something is not right.

If I remember with Outlook Express, there is an option to compact the folders or something that has to be done after deleting. Been a long time since I have used Express though.

Also, after deleting the emails, are you emptying the deleted items folder?

 

[Yeagermeister]

If I remember with Outlook Express, there is an option to compact the folders or something that has to be done after deleting. Been a long time since I have used Express though.

Also, after deleting the emails, are you emptying the deleted items folder?

Beat me to it

The email files won't shrink until you compact them. I'd still be shocked if that's what is eating up your drive space.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Outlook Express is all I use. ONe of them always timed out when I sent items due to some glitch the tech had no idea how to fix, so I created a 2nd but never deleted the original one.

I always kept the emails for legal purposes but am more worried now about my computer crashing than the state wanting to look at my past files.

FAIL.