Why is my hard disk so full, double the size of important things in the file Explorer?

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• Why is my hard disk so full?

  Hello

  I had a problem recently with my Compaq Deskpro EN, who has a 20 GB HARD drive Maxtor 6E020L0.
  He quickly lost space, and now it has 0 bytes of space on D:. C: I have 298 MB of space, which is OK, I guess.
  I continued doing disk clean ups and finally resorted to download several programs of cleaning disc. Those who have worked for a while and then it became new.
  I need help!
  Dave

  You should have 20% on C free disk space? What is D?

  I'd be interested to see a report of Disk Defragmenter. Open Disk Defragmenter and click analysis. Select view report, and then click Save as and save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents folder. Open the file, and place the cursor anywhere in the file, select Edition, select all to select all the text and copy and paste into the body of your message. To do this, before you run Disk Defragmenter because it is more informative.

  As Daavee said 20 GB is really very small even for Windows XP!

• Re: Canvio external HARD disk. What is the preloaded software?

  Just installed this unit of 500 GB and there are two files pre-installed on it. One, "autorun" to 34 bytes and the second 'software offers"to 15.6 MB. Autorun does not work and software offer is just a screen that looks like its intended to show the contents of the HARD disk, but does not work. You can delete these two files? No information in the literature on each file.
  Thank you
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  I do not have this external HARD drive, but as far as I know Toshiba offers software to backup very uncomfortable. After installing the software, you have several options that you can use for data backup or data storage.

  I assume you have not be able to install this software, right?

• I'm trying to install Adobe PS CS3 for my boss on another computer. I put the program on a hard disk and copied to the other computer now, it does not open and said he needs the license. What can I do to make it work on this computer?

  I'm trying to install Adobe PS CS3 for my boss on another computer. I put the program on a hard disk and copied to the other computer now, it does not open and said he needs the license. What can I do to make it work on this computer?

  Copy the program through a new machine will not work.   Install it using installation files and activate using the serial number assigned to the license.

  CS3 - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs3-product-downloads.html

• Why don't c:\users\attrib h 'All Users' changing the directory to all users so that it displays in the file Explorer? Same thing with %APPDATA%\microsoft\windows\sendto and ProgramData directories?

  Title asks this.

  Why don't c:\users\attrib h 'All Users' changing the directory to all users so that it displays in the file Explorer?  Same thing with %APPDATA%\microsoft\windows\sendto and ProgramData directories?

  Thank you.

  Title asks this.

  Why don't c:\users\attrib h 'All Users' changing the directory to all users so that it displays in the file Explorer?  Same thing with %APPDATA%\microsoft\windows\sendto and ProgramData directories?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  In Windows 7, the AllUsers folder is not a real file.

  It is a symbolic link that redirects to the C:\ProgramData folder.

  ProgramData is not hidden, by default.

  The correct syntax for the Attrib command would be,

  C:\>attrib h ProgramData

  You can view all files by going to the tab options\View Organize\Folder and research.

  In the section files and hidden files , place a check mark in the Show drives, folders and hidden files.

  Click Apply/OK.

  Concerning

• After saving the emails from windows live mail, why not open them on my computer as the file extension is wlmail.fol?

  After saving the emails from windows live mail, why not open them on my computer as the file extension is wlmail.fol?

  wlmail.fol is a tiny text giving the name of the folder. The exported messages will have filenames like 00D13E83 - 000025DF.eml. If you don't see all of the files like this, your export probably did not work properly.

  For a successful export, follow these directions:

  1. Set Windows Live Mail to work offline before starting.
  2. Create a temporary folder on your desktop * to contain the exported messages.
  3. In the Export Wizard, select the temporary folder, and then select all the folders.* *
  4. When it is complete, check that the number of files in each folder to the temporary folder is one more than the number of messages in the corresponding folder of WLMail.
  5. Copy the temporary file to its final destination.
     If you use a reader not NTFS to do this, you will see a warning that certain file properties will not be copied files. This can be ignored.

  * Windows Live Mail do not work with files that are not on a local drive, as opposed to an external or network drive. This is avoided by using the office as a temporary folder location. 
  * If you want to export the files sampled only, select each of them containing messages. Subfolders are not automatically selected by default.

• My computer crashed two weeks ago and all software had reinstalled in another HD. The first hard drive still has all the files and are readable. Where can I find the old catalog fall back all my work?

  My computer crashed two weeks ago and all software had reinstalled in another HD. The first hard drive still has all the files and are readable. Where can I find the old catalog fall back all my work?

  My lightroom was great before the crash to work and I have a lot of work still pending.

  You will need the catalog file and all your images. If you have also stored your images on which crashed HDD you will need to copy them as well.

  The default location of the LR catalog file is in your user name folder in the folder on the ROOT of the drive users

• Why has my creative suite was extraction of the files older than 2 days?

  Why has my creative suite was extraction of the files older than 2 days?

  because there is a problem.

  undo the check and to redownload the installation files in the case where your dl has been altered.

• Compaq Presario CQ61 Notebook Hard Disk 1 full (305)

  Hi there everyone,

  I have a problem with my laptop start-up where windows can sometimes load and run, but other times I gives me the option to "Repair Windows" or "Start Windows normally".

  I got the message "boot device found" or "Please install and opertaing system."

  Well, I know that it is a responsible OS that I wouldn't be able to sometimes start in windows successfully.

  Primary hard disk Self Test I ran and returned the following results:

  Quick test

  100% complete...

  Hard drive Test passed.

  Full test

  48% complete...

  Hard drive 1 full (305)

  Intelligent control

  HDD SMART spending

  End of the test.

  What does all this mean?

  My hard drive is in failure or default and on there way out, or y at - it cable losing hard disk connection.

  Any assistance with this issue, I'd be very happy.

  See you soon

  

  Hi Kiwibuilt,

  I would recommend you replace the HARD drive because he's looking for as you HDD is dying and that's why you have this problem starting.

  Hope that I have answered your question.

  I also found another post where they have the same problem I will link you there. There is also a little more information about the error 305

• What to do when the hard disk is full, but is not

  I have installed a larger hard drive, installed all my files from a backup disk and now I get the message that my disk is full.what is the cure

  What to do if everything you do when you get this message?

  It is not completely unknown for an error message give wrong information about his cause.

  What process did you use to restore the backup?

  If, for example, you backed up and restored as a full score then the restored partition can be the same size as the original, even if there is space on the disk to expand it.

  TT2

• How can I remove an unwanted operating system to free up space on my HARD disk almost full

  The drive is about 75 GB and has two partitions (C: and D readers :). There is a version of Vista on each partition.  My ultimate goal is to reformat the drive as one partition and reload the operating system, but I have found no way of formatting of disks, holding Vista. Help, please.

  Hello 771,

  I don't understand why Windows Disk manager would not allow a partition deletion or reformatting. I use this option during all this time without any problem of "system folders" etc.

  Take a look at these two links to my website and see if they help you:

  http://vistasupport.MVPs.org/format_partition_using_vista_dvd.htm

  http://vistasupport.MVPs.org/delete_a_partition_using_the_vista_dvd.htm

  Otherwise, you should eb able to erase/format the partition by using a part of htird partitioning application as Paragon Hard Disk manager or something similar.

  Paragon do a free Partition Manager (Paragon Partition Manager 11 free), check out the link below.

  http://www.Paragon-Software.com/home/pm-express/

  This forum post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or the opinion of Microsoft, its employees or other MVPS.

  John Barnett MVP: Windows XP Expert associated with: Windows Expert - consumer: www.winuser.co.uk | vistasupport.mvps.org | xphelpandsupport.mvps.org | www.silversurfer-Guide.com

• Of backup external hard disk is full

  My backup hard drive is full.  He has 596 GB and my c: drive has only 147 GB used.  I have back up once a week by using the Windows Vista Home Premium to the high installation and my initial back upward in August 2009.  I realized that after the first backup only the changes/additions etc have been added.  How can I used this space?  What is wrong?  Can you help me please?

  Thanks for the tips - the end has no need to take this as far as we upgraqded our software for Windows 7 and Office 2007.

  Thanks for your help

• 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.

• The constant hard disk - system and DiagnosticAgent.exe wrote to 300 different activity. Files of the PNF at a constant rate - starting programs negatively impaired.

  Something similar to this began after a time, I was installing updates (somewhere in June or July). A month later, after I installed SP2 via the update, the problem presented differently (just as bad). Here's what I found recently of the reliability monitor and performance:

  -DiagnosticAgent.exe > C:/windows/inf/infcache.0 = wr 1.5 MB/min x 2 (constant) (sometimes up to 6 x)

  -System > loads of instances (~ 500) on. The files of the PNF in C:\Windows\inf\ =
  mainly writing<100kB in="" but="" some="" write="" up="" to="">
  -Diagnosticagent.exe > loads of instances (~ 500) on. The files of the PNF in C:\Windows\inf\ =
  mainly writing<100kB in="" but="" some="" write="" up="" to="">

  (total of instances of 1000 files .pnf; 300 different ones, several up to 12 instances of the same .pnf, half of them at least 4 instances of the same .pnf.)

  I don't see many cases playback from the hard drive. Even at 100% highest active time, the graph of the disc in the performance bed also monitor, an average of only 2 Mbps. When Disk Defragmenter is running, it is an average of 50 MB/s.

  This constant HDD activity about 1000 cases write in 30 minutes continuous .pnf files after startup and after awakening from sleep. While that happens, most of the programs, after loading, do not react for 5 minutes, then run as usual. Even the message control user account often fails to appear before it expires (in 2 minutes) during this time.

  I tried Googling on hdd constant activity on the PNF files, but did not find much.

  I will try using the restoration of the system again, although I had a few unsuccessful attempts with her.

  I have Norton Antivirus installed, which scans for viruses periodically. It is not really the cause of this unknown and unusual hard disk activity I know.

  Hi Tiscando,

  Welcome to microsoft windows vista forums!

  You did any recent changes of hardware on the computer?

  Have you run a memory diagonstic test?

  This question may be occurred due to services (3 programs) running during startup.

  I suggest you put the computer in a clean boot and check:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135 - how to solve a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista

  (By putting the computer in clean startup - you can find which program is causing the problem)

  Note: Turn the computer back to normal once the test is done.

  Analyze the computer from infection by the virus:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx

  In addition, see the following links:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950684 - how to to solve performance issues during startup in Windows Vista

  http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/bc1393cf-9f9c-79c7-0f91-9337c2c41f811033.mspx ---> check your hard disk for errors

  Let us know if that helps.

  Thank you, and in what concerns:

  Ajay k Microsoft support

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• T400 problem booting from the hard disk, blinking cursor on the top left corner of the screen

  I have problems with T400 (2765-TDG). He struggled with the Setup, which requires power 5 minutes/disable to propely operating system boot.

  Computer laptop is less than two months, entirely properly the driver being up-to-date, then after that, nothing's been done about it to user or system administrator. Problem occurred suddenly after two weeks of mentioned maintenance.

  Symptoms:

  • After initialization of the mouse, screen goes black, and the upper left corner white cursor starts to Flash
  • There is no key keyb which can contine begin the process, wait for the reboot
  • There is no other device connected to the laptop, even mouse not
  • We have several, sometimes 3-4, sometimes even 10 times, to restart with the power button in order to get the boot of the operating system
  • When he is successful, just before the start of the operating system, the boot in diagnostic mode to start (with fast start disabled) I can hear only a single beep

  What I tried to do:

  • I changed the BIOS setting to force booting only from hard drive, cut off from any other starting device.
  • Also, changed from AHCI mode to compatibility for hard drive, but without help.
  • Turned off the coast of quick start, but during the startup process, there is no specific error indicated
  • Updated version of BIOS to 2.03 - 1.01 but with no help
  • Restored the default BIOS, no help

  Done some diagnostics generals, and here is what I noticed:

  • After changing the settings in the BIOS, save & exit, the computer hangs with a black screen. I have to turn off and on in order to continue the initialization. The settings in the BIOS are registered correctly.
  • When I was able to boot into the operating system (XP), graphics card sometimes is not recognized, not even by the original driver installation. In Device Manager, I have two graphics card drivers recognized traffic sign with "Intel management engine interface" device with warning sign
  • In Event Viewer, and then only error line is "Problem with HECI driver communicating with firmware" or something like that
  • Operating system is not able to enter in standby mode, it justshows white screen and I have to turn off the laptop by pressing the off button longer

  Any help appreciated. Thank you! I hope I can cope with this before I send laptop to the authorized service.

  Vedran

  I'm sorry to tell you, but in case, can I had to send laptop to the authorized service provider. They replaced the motherboard and the hard disk (!). Now, everything works fine, but puts shame on Thinkpad T series notebook.