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hi my HDD is very funny......when i check the free space in my HDD is 5.67 GB and i leave the computer on for whole night and i go to sleep,,,, i dont touch it at all, i just put screen saver on it and no internet connection at that time.... And in the morning i check the free space is lostand left 5,63 GB......????? Is there a virus or anything????howcome i lost space so many times like that, i try to check it out for many time.....?and it happen so many times please help me.....
Name: DblFun Date: June 18, 2002 at 04:36:14 Pacific
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Your pc is probably making restore files. Windows does this to make it possible to put your pc back to a day in the past. I think your pc makes this "back up" t night.
You should be able to find some file s named ***000.chk or something like that. You can delete these files ig you want to (this disables you to set back the system)
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Name: freddy Date: June 18, 2002 at 07:14:14 Pacific
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.chk files are from chkdisk after a hard reboot, not from system restore "system volume info" is where the restore files are found
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