re: Hard Drive Mysterously Filling
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 9:31 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David
(674 messages posted)
Hi Chris
This needs more work -
Try SequioaView - see what is stored on the HD -
http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//
A virus scan is not enough -
Run an anti virus scanner - one product does not catch all
Run a range of anti malware programs - e.g. a-squared, AVG Anti-spyware, AVG anti-rootkit,
. . .
Run in Safe Mode - how does the system go?
Use MSConfig, Startup - selective startups - see if a culprit can be found
David
On Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 9:01 am, Chris wrote:
>The partition which my installation of Windows XP resides on is slowly filling up
>from when I boot. When I first boot into the OS I have 7.4 GB of free space however,
>over time (the space of an hour or so) this gradually decreases until the partition
>is full and things start getting messy with everything slowing down.
>
>The strange part is that I cannot work out what is doing this. I've closed all programs
>(incuding firewalls etc.) and ended all unecessary processes but the ptoblem persists.
>I've even used Sysinternals File Monitor to keep and eye on what processes are doing
>what but this reports no writes occuring just rudimentary requests from the likes
>of explorer. I've performed a full virus scan too which has returned absolutely
nothing.
>Furthermore, none of the applications I have installed are installed on this drive
>and to add more mystery, folders do not accumulate memory on the suspect drive.
That
>is to say if I highlight all of the folders on this drive (config.msi, docs & settings,
>program files, windows, recycler, system volume information) and view the properties
>for these, the size value (2.95 GB) of these does not represent the corresponding
>value of the drive (5.77 currently and counting...).
>
>Its got me bushed, can anyone suggest what might be doing this or anything else
I
>can try? Perhaps a diak utility that will log writes? I've been using Sysinternals
>Disk Monitor but this doesn't really give much info away.
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | re: Hard Drive Mysterously Filling (David: Sun, Jan 20, 2008, 9:31 am) |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum
|
|
