[gui-talk] Mysterious Low Free Space on HD

[Mark J. Cadigan]

i would back up your files, and reinstall the OS. Perhaps on a new hard 
drive.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:11 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] Mysterious Low Free Space on HD


>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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