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Hard Drive Mysterously Filling
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Hard Drive Mysterously Filling
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 9:01 am
Posted by Chris
(18 messages posted)
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.
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re: Hard Drive Mysterously Filling
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 9:22 am
Posted by Steve Dunn
(911 messages posted)
So how do you reclaim the space? Does it magically reappear if you shut down and
restart machine - or do you have to do some housekeeping? If the latter, then presumably
you know what's filling up the drive - care to share that info with us?. If the former,
then it must be some sort of temporary area being used by one of you apps.
btw - what do you have running?
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.
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re: Hard Drive Mysterously Filling
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 9:31 am
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.
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re: Hard Drive Mysterously Filling
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 10:29 am
Posted by David
(674 messages posted)
Hi Chris
??Another possibility to consider -
Batch file filling up the HD
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1193279895
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.
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re: Hard Drive Mysterously Filling
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Posted by Chris
(18 messages posted)
I've just solved the problem. It was due to a logfile for Bootvis which was continually
updating (growing in size) but wasn't registering correctly with system properties.
Here's the solution:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1075157049
Many thanks to you both for trying to help.
Chris
On Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 10:29 am, David wrote:
>Hi Chris
>
>??Another possibility to consider -
>
>Batch file filling up the HD
>
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1193279895
>
>David
>
>
>
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re: Hard Drive Mysterously Filling
Monday, January 21, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Posted by David
(674 messages posted)
Hi Chris
Thanks for posting back the solution
David
On Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 2:20 pm, Chris wrote:
>I've just solved the problem. It was due to a logfile for Bootvis which was continually
>updating (growing in size) but wasn't registering correctly with system properties.
>Here's the solution:
>
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1075157049
>
>Many thanks to you both for trying to help.
>
>Chris
>
>
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