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• C disk hard disk space disappear and cannot return

  My hard drive c [I have Windows Vista home premium service pack 2/Toshiba Satellite A205, 32 bit OS] had about 60 GB of space unused and suddenly, from nowhere, it has less than 1 GB.

  I have already tried:

  -defragmentation,

  -Disk Cleanup,

  -deletion of restore points/shadow copies,

  -scanned for virus/spyware/malware.

  -uninstalled all unnecessary programs.

  Nothing I've done has increased space. What is causing this problem and how can I solve this problem?

  Thanks for your help.

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  In fact, I discovered what the problem was by downloading WinDirStat and apparently Norton 360 has created approximately 66GB of backups so I deleted all those and my hard drive is back to normal.

  Of course it was something so simple... oh well at least it's fixed now.

• Hard disk space in Vista too

  my vista from top (2 years) Office Guard takeing hard drive each week, about 2 to 3 GB. even when its an off week, he sweats 7 GB and ny the computer was switched off all week, last week, it took 6 GB of my hard disk, why is he doing this and how can I stop it... Hector chula vista

  hard drive

  Hello

  Run DiskCleanup - start - all programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup

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  Info:

  System restore usually holds 15% of disk space and updates that are necessary for running computer
  consume even more. Backup - Options of recovery and even MS updates and those of HP, Dell
  or similar manufacturers use the space if your charging system. There are also overhead for the readers are not
  format to their maximum capacity.

  Where all my disk space? (Vista) - good writeup
  http://Forum.NotebookReview.com/showthread.php?t=167983

  Hard disk space Vista shrinking and reducing anomaly
  http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/07/04/Vista-hard-disk-space-shrinking-and-reducing-anomaly/

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  This will show you how disk space is being used.

  WinDirStat - free - use to make sure you know what is too much space.
  http://WinDirStat.info/

  Also run Disk Cleanup:

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup.

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  If you need search malware here's my recommendations - they will allow you to
  scrutiny and the withdrawal without ending up with a load of spyware programs running
  resident who can cause as many questions as the malware and may be more difficult to detect as the
  cause.

  No one program cannot be used to detect and remove any malware. Added that often easy
  to detect malicious software often comes with a much harder to detect and remove the payload. Then
  its best to be thorough than paying the high price later now too. Check with them to one
  extreme overkill point and then run the cleaning only when you are sure that the system is clean.

  It can be made repeatedly in Mode safe - F8 tap that you start, however, you must also run
  the regular windows when you can.

  Download malwarebytes and scan with it, run MRT and add Prevx to be sure that he is gone.
  (If Rootkits run UnHackMe)

  Download - SAVE - go to where you put it-right on - click RUN AS ADMIN

  Malwarebytes - free
  http://www.Malwarebytes.org/

  Run the malware removal tool from Microsoft

  Start - type in the search box-> find MRT top - right on - click RUN AS ADMIN.

  You should get this tool and its updates via Windows updates - if necessary, you can
  Download it here.

  Download - SAVE - go to where you put it-right on - click RUN AS ADMIN
  (Then run MRT as shown above.)

  Microsoft Malicious - 32-bit removal tool
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displaylang=en

  Microsoft Malicious removal tool - 64 bit
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=585D2BDE-367F-495e-94E7-6349F4EFFC74&displaylang=en

  also install Prevx to be sure that it is all gone.

  Download - SAVE - go to where you put it-right on - click RUN AS ADMIN

  Prevx - Home - free - small, fast, exceptional CLOUD protection, working with others
  security programs. It is a single scanner, VERY EFFICIENT, if it finds something to come back
  here or use Google to see how to remove.
  http://www.prevx.com/   <-->
  http://info.prevx.com/downloadcsi.asp  <-->

  Choice of PCmag editor - Prevx-
  http://www.PCMag.com/Article2/0, 2817,2346862,00.asp

  Try the demo version of Hitman Pro:

  Hitman Pro is a second scanner reviews, designed to save your computer from malicious software
  (viruses, Trojans, rootkits, etc.). who infected your computer despite safe
  what you have done (such as antivirus, firewall, etc.).
  http://www.SurfRight.nl/en/hitmanpro

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  If necessary here are some free online scanners to help the

  http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/

  http://OneCare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

  http://www.Kaspersky.com/virusscanner

  Other tests free online
  http://www.Google.com/search?hl=en&source=HP&q=antivirus+free+online+scan&AQ=f&OQ=&AQI=G1

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  Also follow these steps for the General corruption of cleaning and repair/replace damaged/missing
  system files.

  Run DiskCleanup - start - all programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup

  Start - type this into the search-> find COMMAND to top box and RIGHT CLICK-
  RUN AS ADMIN

  Enter this at the command prompt - sfc/scannow

  How to analyze the log file entries that the Microsoft Windows Resource Checker
  (SFC.exe) program generates in Windows Vista cbs.log
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/928228

  Run checkdisk - schedule it to run at the next startup, then apply OK then restart your way.

  How to run the check disk at startup in Vista
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/67612-check-disk-Chkdsk.html

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  If we find Rootkits use this thread and other suggestions. (Run UnHackMe)

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/InternetExplorer/thread/a8f665f0-C793-441A-a5b9-54b7e1e7a5a4/

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Bike - Mark Twain said it right.

• Hard disk space is down on its own without adding files or programs.

  original title: reduction of disk space

  My hard disk space is down without my add files or programs. I deleted the files, and after a while, I get the message that I'm out of space disk yet. I ran the windows disk cleaner, but the question is not what I need more disk space - is my drive space decreases continuously. For example, yesterday I got 4.89 GB free, today, I 4.80 - without adding anything to my computer. Any suggestion for what can happen and how to fix this?

  Another minor issue I have is that sometimes windows does not start correctly and I can't open any programs after implementation - in this case, I just restart and it works usually then. Don't know which is related to the question of good memory, but maybe it is?

  I am running Windows Vista Business SP2 on a Lenovo Thinkpad X 61.

  Thank you!

  Sounds like you have * something * create journals. Try a number of things, first off this program to see if you can find out where your space is being taken.

  http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/

  Once you find out where to try and understand what is the cause. You can consider that you have some kind of virus/malware on your computer. Try to run Malwarebytes in safe mode and see what he says.

  http://www.Malwarebytes.org/

  I hope this helps.

• Is it normal that Firefox consumes hard disk space open?

  Last week, I noticed the following 'strange' behavior of Firefox on my iMac (under Snow Leopard 10.6.8): while I have the browser open (usually on Facebook) my hard drive space appears to reduce (for example, 265,14 GB 265,01 GB). When I close Firefox and restart my computer, the amount of hard disk space increases again. He don't know if that happened in the past or if it's something normal. I have not installed extensions or themes, my plugins are all updated and I do not have a lot of navigation (the FB open Startpage and cat enough). Firefox doesn't seem to have performance problems, but I just want to know if there is a problem and if I could solve it somehow.

  Firefox uses more a GB of space on my hard drive regularly (sometimes 2GB). This seems excessive - especially since I put the cache size to 500 MB.

• A few questions about the defrag and hard space as I get a notification saying my hard disk space became full of drive

  I have problems with my hard drive. I got a notification saying that my hard disk space became full. So I cleaned a lot of programs and files of the irrational. I've freed almost half of it. Then I had another notification a few days later and realized that I had less than 1 GB of free space on my hard drive 600 g. I cleaned more and went to defragment my disk. It is set on a calendar, but I don't think that he has never been defragmented. He ran for about 2.5 days until the cord is unplugged and the battery is dead at 91% consolidated. Do I have to start again and wait again 2.5 days before I little hard drive space open? Or progress in the early days of 2.5 will remain défragmentée? In addition, defrag and do a disk cleanup will stop my hard drive to fill almost instantly after deleting and uninstalling programs? I'm running out of things to remove and I am a full-time student full and really need a computer in operation, please help!

  Defragmentation is complete, will continue from the left point last time. Therefore, if you raise, he will continue that 91 percent (of course, it will start from 0%, but the scan will go up that 91% and continue with the rest of the space on the hard disk, that 91% of surface of the hard drive has been defragmented already).

  Yes, you can delete all the files inside the Temp folder. TEMP folder is a temporary storage place used by some programs to temporarily store the files/folders. Some programs remove the files/folders after working, but some retain them, causing space problems.

  You can use disk cleanup, on occasion, to delete unnecessary files from the hard drive.

• Creative cloud installation runs. No error, but it does not install. 19gigs of free hard disk space. What is the question?

  The title says it all.

  Creative cloud installation runs. No error, but it does not install. 19gigs of free hard disk space. What is the question?

  Uninstall anything cc which can be installed.

  clean cc by the use of the Adobe Creative Cloud cleaning tool to solve installation problems

  Restart your computer

  Restart the cc desktop application installation, https://creative.adobe.com/products/creative-cloud

• Why Lightroom uses hard disk space if my catalog is in dropbox?

  I am new to Lightroom and love it so far. In addition to some external hard drives backup, I keep all my photos on Dropbox and am currently trying to build my library in Lightroom by importing my photos. Because I'll be editing my photos from multiple computers, I decided to move my Lightroom Catalog to Dropbox as well. This way I can continue to ensure coherence between several machines in my library.

  My question, however, is that whenever I have import photos, I seem to be consumes hard disk space on my computer. I'm confused because my photos and catalog are in Dropbox, so this is actually too much space on my hard drive? I just imported approximately 1.63 GB of photos and afterword noticed that 1.46 GB has been written to my hard drive. I know that I am using the correct catalog (also the catalog only I have for Lightroom) because use space has increased after my import on my dropbox catalog file.

  I don't know there's a logical reason - as I said, I'm new to Lightroom so always understand the ins and outs. But if someone could help me out here I would appreciate it a lot!

  Thank you

  I'm confused because my photos and catalog are in Dropbox, so this is actually too much space on my hard drive? I just imported approximately 1.63 GB of photos and afterword noticed that 1.46 GB has been written to my hard drive.

  By default copy of Dropbox (and synchronizes forever) all in your remote Dropbox folder on each device that you have connected to your Dropbox account.

  1 GB of files in your remote Dropbox folder will also chew up to 1 GB of space on each hard disk attached to the Dropbox account.

  The power of the box lies in its timing in order to always have the latest file available on any device connected to your Dropbox account. The compromise is that 5 appliances also each stores its own copy of the same file. Any changes made to any file on any device is synchronized by Dropbox.

  You can save space locally by allowing a selective sync in Dropbox and saying Dropbox folders to synchronize and copy it to the local disk and which ignores.

  Are you using the selective sync Dropbox?

  How to save space on my computer with selective sync? (Dropbox Help Center)

  However, I am not convinced that selective sync will give you the workflow that you are trying to reach.

• ESXi 4.0 initial installation 208167 used 80G of hard disk space

  Hello

  I'll put up an old HP Proliant DL360 G5 server with two hard drives, managed by the HP Smart Array P400i controller 146SAS.  With RAID 1 + 0, the LogicalDisk is about 136G.  After you have installed the server ESXi 4.0, vSphere client reported that 51G is available for virtual machines.   See attached snapshot.  Back in 2009, on a new DL360 G6 server, I used the same software to ESXi 4.0 and installing used only 2 GB of space.  Which could use the 80G of hard disk space? 

  I noticed a difference in how vSphere client reported the DTX200:

  The DL360 G5, the customer reported the storage as "local disk VMWare..." »

  The DL360 G6, the customer reported the storage as "Home HP series SCSI Disk... »

  Any idea what happened to the 80G?  Thank you.

  -Jim

  If I understand you correctly, there is nothing on the data store yet (i.e. no VMs)? In this case, you can try to remove the data store and recreate to see if it reports the correct size after that.

  André

• Amount of available hard disk space

  I have Windows Vista Ultimate and whenever I connect I have less space in my hard drive but I have most of my documents on an external drive.  I tried to follow the advice of the community here, but nothing worked so far.  How can I prevent the loss of space?

  Hello

  This free program allows you to see what is taking place.

  http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/

  Here's how to understand Treesize Screenshots:

  http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/screenshots.shtml

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  By default system restore also includes 15% of the capacity of your hard drive.

  You can change the size of it:

  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html

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  You can clean your hard drive using these two methods.

  "Delete files using Disk Cleanup"

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup

  Using the free CCleaner program:

  http://www.Piriform.com/CCleaner

  In NO case use the registry cleaning Option in CCleaner

  Download, install, update and scan your system with the free version of Malwarebytes AntiMalware:

  http://www.Malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

  And Norton Backup, if you are using Norton, can do strange things with filling of hard drive space.

  See you soon.

• hard disk space automatically reduce

  I have a HP pavilion dv7-1285dx entertainment notebook PC... my disk space is 451 gb... but I am havin a problem that hard drive space is automatically reduced... do not know why its happens... say after days 2to3 arnd 1or2gb of disk space is shrinks... Please help me on the with this problem... will she be lookin out for some solutions...

  concerning

  Karan

  Hello

  I assume you are using Vista.

  This suggestion below will make your disk as clean and open as possible:

  1. install and run CCleaner Slim here or other cleaner for Vista.

  2. reduce pagefile. How information here.

  3. turn off System Restore. How information here. (I think this is your problem now).

  4. disable hibernation. How information here.

  5. clean browser cache. How information here.

  6. size reduce recycle bin. How information here.

• Memory hard disk space?

  Until recently, my main hard drive is lost memory with no additional downloads. 20gigs of space disappeared in 2 weeks. I could make a clean disk with windows and with an internet security program but impossible to recover this loss of storage. I also did a restore of windows at a date prior to this incident, but without success. What is this possible. ? At this rate I won't lose my space of hard drive in 2 months.

  Hi Whynot build.

  Try to remove the restore points from your computer. This will probably give you an extra 20 GB

  How to delete all system restore points except the most recent

  To do this: -.
  Click Start > all programs > Accessories > System Tools > click Disk Cleanup
  Now run this utility and click the Other Options tab click clean up under System Restore and shadow copies. Has message will popup -are you sure you want to remove all but the last restore point? Click Remove and exit the program. Now, all restore points in the system to the most recent exception are cleaned. As a result, there will be more free space on hard drive.

• Missing after pre-allocating to extra 40 GB hard disk space

  Hello

  I use Windows 7 with VMWare fusion and everything works fine except after a few days, I'm already low disk space.

  What virtual machine installation automatically allocated 40 GB by default Windows C: / / hard drive. On the settings tab, under the hard drive, I moved the slider up to 80 GB and checked the "pre-allocate disk space" option before applying the settings. It took a few minutes to complete and then the extra space was absent from the partition on my mac, but when I run windows folder C: / / is still only 40 GB, and I can't find where the missing space disappeared.

  Anyone know how I can develop either drive C to the 80 GB that was to be distributed on it, or otherwise restore disk space lost from my mac?

  Kind regards

  Jack

  Hi Jack,

  Welcome to the forums.

  After resizing the virtual disk, you must tell Windows 7 to extend its partition. Go to the management of records within your guest and extend your C: drive with available disk space.

  Concerning

  Franck

• Backup to external hard drive on iCloud &gt; &gt; used internal hard disk space

  Is there a way to backup disks external hard on iCloud without iCloud with disk space hard internal iMac?

  I tried an external hard drive to backup to iCloud and although it does not copy in iCloud. It also eliminates the same amount of available space on the hard drive of my iMac.

  Does this mean that iCloud only backs up files on an internal drive so it copies them from external drives to the internal main? Is this a problem external disk hard/iCloud? Is it possible to set this up properly?

  The files are logical X. This could be a logic X / question iCloud? I know the hype for iCloud said any file, but no logic X icon in the system preferences iCloud box. Set to true any file ?

  Thanks for any information you have.

  Data in iCloud cannot synchronize from an external hard drive.

  iCloud does not synchronize data from logic X.

• Satellite A100-049: Question about HARD disk space

  My new laptop has a 120 GB hard drive. It is partitioned into 2 drives. My question is that the C drive has only 2 GB of software on it yet it shows 18 used and only 37 GB free. Can someone tell me why it does not show 2 and 55 GB free.

  Hello

  > My question is that the C drive has only 2 GB of software top

  I put t believe that! Always is that the device was shipped with Vista or am I wrong?
  I installed Vista on my laptop and the Vista installation needs about 17 18 GB on the HARD disk. Then why you are suggesting there is only 2 GB?

  You said 37GB free on the HARD drive. For me it ok s. 55 GB GB 37 GB = 18
  What's the problem?