Harddrive space being used up unknowingly

[dtgo]

The search button have teeth or walk with cutlass and foaming at the mouth....?

lol for some people i guess...or them just lazy...no mind them them will eventually learn

lol no need to knock ma head off guys ive been around long on the site to kno the use of the search button but ur method or what uve suggested b4 doesnt work for me and . mi tired a run disk cleanup and the other utilites

FYI cCLeaner doesnt help ive havd that app for years

[T-Zero]

have you tried deleting some of your system restore points

[speed]

i have a 160 gig hdd on ma laptop

40g for xp
40g for vista
10g for ubuntu
and therest for everything else

clipped for brevity

heres ur solution that sounds like a nasty virus or worm or smmn cuz u space jus get eated up out of nothing so i would say u need to clean reinstall or get a new hard drive ur choice

[dtgo]

heres ur solution that sounds like a nasty virus or worm or smmn cuz u space jus get eated up out of nothing so i would say u need to clean reinstall or get a new hard drive ur choice

is thats ur solution

are u serious i run regular scans almost every day an i have 3 antiviruses that do not pic anything up .......... something else is using ma space and its not a worm or crap cache files ..........

nooone here knows . but id not like to reinstall for it to happen again

have you tried deleting some of your system restore points

yea thats an option in disck cleaner ........ im almost fed up cause everyday i have to run it wen windows pops up the icon .........
today i watched no movies and it was at 1gig now its at 200 mb

[Nestersan]

did you run an anti-rootkit program ?
or do a search telling your system to show u files created in the last two days to see what has changed ?

[kilaj1]

If all else fails you may have to do some manual work to see where the space is being used...go to the properties of each folder and see where the space is. it may be legitimate programs using up the space. check how much space the program files using.

[dtgo]

If all else fails you may have to do some manual work to see where the space is being used...go to the properties of each folder and see where the space is. it may be legitimate programs using up the space. check how much space the program files using.

nothing works man ......... and i download this app that shows u the space usuage in a pie chart on the drive

ima see if i can fix the issue or see whats causing it .........i now have time since im on holidays


ill get back to u all on that


what i find strange is that im the only one that has this problem . i cant believe that noone else has this problem ........... and ive seen it on various machines tat ive serviced

[lovepython]

the last time i saw an issue similar to that it was a strain of the brontok which duplicates every file on the system and gives it an .exe extension.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Have you tried looking for data hidden in alternate data streams?

[techgangsta21]

i have the same problem lol