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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Simon on June 01, 2004, 21:54
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I have just been having a poke about, having a clean up, etc, and I noticed that my used disc space has suddenly increased by about 25%, for no apparent reason. This amounts to around 10-12Gb, which I can't account for. I have not installed anything new in the last couple of weeks, but when I checked last time, my free space was about 51%, now it is down to 27%.
Is there a way to check which are the largest files and folders on my C drive? I've emptied all my Temp files, and it only reclaimed about 100Mb.
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Start backing up like there's no tomorrow, and pray that your system lasts long enough to work out what's up with it. Goodbye, Simon. :'(
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Thanks Rod - most helpful. :P ;D
I thought I'd check things out with Norton, so used End It All to close everything down, and started Norton Utilities. I used the Speed Disc tool to analyse my disc, and lo and behold, the lost disc space had returned, and everything is now back to normal. I then rebooted, and all is still well.
I don't understand what could have happened, but can only assume that Windows didn't calculate the disc space correctly for some reason. :-\
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Maybe your disk's contents table screwed up, Simon. Luckily, there's always a spare copy knocking around for when things go plum-shaped. Recommend you carry on praying though. ;)
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Norton recycle bin or whatever it's called? ???
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Clear that Sean. Seems OK now anyway, but I did back up a couple of files just in case.
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sounds like the recent problem i had simon, down to norton recycle bin not deleting. personally i think i'll get rid of it unless someone gives me a good reason not too...i really dont see the point of it. :o
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Yeah, you can just disable it. It could have been that with mine. :-\