[gui-talk] Mysterious Low Free Space on HD
Baracco, Andrew W
Andrew.Baracco at va.gov
Tue Feb 14 16:11:18 UTC 2012
I am using a 5 year old Dell notebook PC running Windows XP Media Center
Edition. It has a 100 GB HD. Because I keep just about all of my
content on external HD's, the HD is only about half full. That was,
until about a week ago. When a 100 MD download was about to conclude, I
got a Disk Cleanup dialogue that said that the download would abort
because there was not enough free space on the HD. Sure enough, when I
checked the properties of the drive, it was just about full. I ran a
disk cleanup and defrag, and recovered about 16 GB of the space, but the
next day it was gone again. I examined the folders on the drive, and
can't find anything that shouldn't be there. Successive runs of disk
cleanup were of little help, and I can't even defrag now because there
isn't enough free space. Antivirus and antimalware scans say that the
system is clean. I have IE set to delete temp internet files on exit.
I don't know what else to do. My neighbor, who is a tech, and who helps
me with PC problems doesn't want to touch this one with a ten foot pole.
Does anyone have any idea of what's going on, and what can be done?
Andy
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