Mysterious loss of free drive space
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Name: JTSi
Date: May 11, 2001 at 21:31:11 Pacific
Subject: Mysterious loss of free drive space
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Comment: I've just recently had something go awry on my system, which I can't explain. I had been using my 20 gig partition on my 45 gig hard drive with about 10 gigs of free space remaining on my 20 gig partition. It was only just recently, about the other day when I was using my cd burner that I just happened upon the stats for my partition and it for some odd reason told me that I had 17 gigs of space taken up with just over 2 gigs of free space left. I don't understand this. I had only just before that had about 10 gigs free and I had not within that short period of time downloaded and installed a massive amount of software to cause that significant a drop in free drive space to occur. The only thing really that I had been doing before this problem occurred was that I was using my cd burner to copy files onto a blank disc. When it was in the middle of copying those files it locked up on me and forced me to do a hard reboot. After that I apparently lost everything I had copied onto the disc because of a write error and corruption on the disc. Now I don't know if that is necessarily related to my free drive space problem, but I just wanted to put that out there to explain what I was doing just before this problem occurred in case it might somehow be related. I also thought about a possible virus causing some strange problem like this, but I hadn't been on the Internet and downloaded anything just before that from what I recall. Plus I use a firewall when I'm online. I'm just at a loss and frustrated as to why I've suddenly lost so much precious space and why WinME is reporting this to me in the drives properties. If anyone can possibly help, please do. I'd appreciate it.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Miroslav Vadovic
Date: May 12, 2001 at 04:22:42 Pacific
Subject: Mysterious loss of free drive space
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Reply: (edit)try to do Start Search File *.* and specify the time period when your loss of disk space occured... sort them then by size to see if you have some huge files...you might have on you HD the image of the CD...
Regards Miro
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Response Number 3
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Name: Dan
Date: May 12, 2001 at 13:42:31 Pacific
Subject: Mysterious loss of free drive space |
Reply: (edit)You might have a space filler virus. Go to NAI.com and download a trial version of Virus Scan and run it.
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