[gui-talk] Mysterious Low Free Space on HD

[Doug Lee]

I have an idea:

Use the file finding powers of Windows Explorer, via Windows+F, and an
advanced filter, to ask for all files on your C drive larger than,
say, 65536 kb, or 6 megabytes.  You can then look for surprises.
Depending on what columns show up in the file list, you may even be
able to sort the list by size, ascending or descending, by using the
JAWS (or your screen reader's equivalent) cursor to click on the Size
header above the list. If Size doesn't show up in the list, use
Alt+Enter to examine properties of a file to get its size on disk.

Hth.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:11:57PM -0600, David Andrews wrote:
This exact thing happened to me about a year ago.  I had a computer,
not a Dell, and the hard drive would fill up completely.  I would
painstakingly create space on it, and it would fill up again the next
day.  Couldn't find viruses, malware etc.  I never got to the bottom
of it -- it was time for computer replacement anyway, which is what
happened.

Sorry I don't have any magic ideas.

Dave

At 10:11 AM 2/14/2012, you wrote:
>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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