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Old April 16th, 2004, 11:18 AM
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Disappearing Hard Disc Space
I have a windows xp operating system.

April 1 Major crash-couldn't reboot (no hard disc space)

April 2 Conducted system recovery

Redownloaded:

Ad Aware, Spybot. Panicware popup stopper, Sygate, AVG antivirus, Blackice, Ace Mega Codecs.

Total remaining hard disc space 31.1 GB

3 April Computer started to switch off automatically sometimes every 10 minutes sometimes went for hours without switching off (this problem has now mysteriously disappeared)

Remaining disc space 25.4 GB!!!

Carried out a disc clean up

AVG reported no viuses detected.

Just to be sure I downloaded Norton which came with the computer but I had never utilized before. Did an update and full scan--no viruses detected.

So my question is where did the 5 plus GBs go overnight?

Or perhaps a more sensible question would be-- How can I track it down?
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Old April 16th, 2004, 11:23 PM
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Might be that your hdd is dying? Mine showed similar signs before it went kaput.
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Or possibly... Some program could be resizing your partition? Check out an fdisk utility to check the partitions sizes. See if they've been altered.
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Thanks puppy. Not knowing exactly what you were talking about (my knowledge extends as far as "Windows XP for Home Users by Michael Miller and he doesn't mention partitioning) I checked it out on the internet. After reading the following I have decided to live with 25.4 GB

How to Partition and Format a Master Hard Disk
IMPORTANT: If you use the following steps on a hard disk that is not empty, all of the data on that hard disk is permanently deleted
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