Hard Drive Problems!!!

[Skattles]

For some odd reason my computer's hard drives space goes up and down. 1 minute ill have 30 gigs the next it goes down to 18. Cant figure out what the problem is. I have doen CC Cleaner as well as uninstalled some things. I know i have more than 18 gigs on my hard drive. A few days ago it went all the way down to 8 but it comes back up and then goes back down. CAN ANYONE HELP ME PLEASE THIS IS VERRY AGRIVATING 1 time it even went down to 0.

 

[Skattles]

Now also i want to add that i have a secondary drive that does not move at all it stays at the same space all the time.

 

[Snipeye]

Moved to Tech Help.

 

[Mr.Game]

For some odd reason my computer's hard drives space goes up and down. 1 minute ill have 30 gigs the next it goes down to 18. Cant figure out what the problem is. I have doen CC Cleaner as well as uninstalled some things. I know i have more than 18 gigs on my hard drive. A few days ago it went all the way down to 8 but it comes back up and then goes back down. CAN ANYONE HELP ME PLEASE THIS IS VERRY AGRIVATING 1 time it even went down to 0.

It looks like System Restore is responsible...

What version of Windows are you using? (XP/Vista/7/other)

 

[Skattles]

I'm running xp. How do you keep your system restore from taking up the hardrive?

 

[The Slayer]

did you try to defrag it?

 

[Mr.Game]

To disable System Restore:

• Click "Start", right-click "My Computer", then click "Properties."
• Click the System Restore tab.
• Click to select the "Turn off System Restore" check box. Or, click to
  select the "Turn off System Restore on all drives" check box.
• Click OK.

(This is from what I remember, I don't have XP anymore)


I would recommend changing the size of allowed disc space for
System Restore instead of disabling it all together.
System Restore allows you to recover from a bad install or virus to just
before it happened.


If the size is currently near ~2GB, then it's fine unless you don't want it
taking up space.

 

[Skattles]

I have tryed a defrag and thats not the case. Also i turned off system restore and that didn't seem to help my drive is still lower than it should be.

 

[Johnny]

How much RAM do you have installed in your computer?

Only reason I ask is bc if you have an insane amount of RAM like, 8gb or maybe 16gb then that's perfectly normal for your pagefile to take up many gb's of space.

 

[Skattles]

I only have like 1 gig

 

[Johnny]

And you sure System Restore is disabled?

Goto Start> Run(or search in vista/7) and type in services.msc

Look for System Restore Event and Stop the service and Disable it from the Properties menu.

 

[Johnny]

Also might want to do a disk check on it just to be sure there's no problems. I think you can right click on the drive and run a disk check on vista/7 but don't get me lying. It's easy to google it though.