hard drive space vanishing!

[wardyboyo]

i have a really big problem wih my computer..i got 2 hard drives ones from an old bt vision box and one is the original that came with the computer...any way about a week or so ago i started getting low disk space error messages..which was odd because i had over 50 gig the day before...the space went down from that to 112mb in about a day..so i rebooted..went o log in and got windows is out of memory or something like that..then it completely changed my user profile for my log in..so idecided to delete some hing ..i only remover about 6 gig but then about 10 minuets later the drive went from 6.1 gig to 30mb and everytime i tried deleting something it would just go straight back down.. its been happening for weeks now..and today it finally decided to go down to 0 bytes..i have absolutley no space what so ever on my c drive!? i cant do nothing!...unless the programs decide to load..which most of he time..they dont. and also i would like to know why is whatever it is picking on one hard drive?

ive tried turning system restore of and alot of other things i got from other websites but nothing worked.. so i came here to ask the experts

any help would be greatly appreciated!

sorry for the ranting!

 

[Jelly Bean]

Hello there.

See if this link helps,I know its for Win 2000 but same princibles apply:

How To Add Error Logging for Low Disk Space in System Monitor in Windows 2000

Or this one:

Description of the Low Disk Space Notification in Windows XP

This may also help:

CCleaner - Download

CCleaner button/click analyze/then run cleaner button.

 

[mat777]

repeatedly hibernating your pc (or putting it in sleep mode) means your pc has to save everything exactly as it is to a part of the hdd to resume windows. if you do this often then it eats up hhd space like nothing else. try runnign disk cleanup programs such as cleanup wizard to remove all these files. also go round deleting all temporary files such as cookies and internet explorer offline files (access this via i.e. options and click delete all, make sure you check the box to delete offline files.
even if these things arent the problem, it surely wont do any harm to run them anyway, and disk cleanup may well highlight other problems contributing

 

[wardyboyo]

repeatedly hibernating your pc (or putting it in sleep mode) means your pc has to save everything exactly as it is to a part of the hdd to resume windows. if you do this often then it eats up hhd space like nothing else. try runnign disk cleanup programs such as cleanup wizard to remove all these files. also go round deleting all temporary files such as cookies and internet explorer offline files (access this via i.e. options and click delete all, make sure you check the box to delete offline files.
even if these things arent the problem, it surely wont do any harm to run them anyway, and disk cleanup may well highlight other problems contributing

my computer cant hibernate anyway..and i have ccleaner i use it..space frees up then just goes full again!

 

[zinglebarb]

is it fully patched and upto date?

might be worth running scan disk on the drive. Press win key and r type cmd and hit enter
Type chkdsk c: /r
it will say the drive is busy check next reboot click y
reboot the machien when it does not need to be used for a while and allow it to scan

 

[wardyboyo]

id did that not so long ago about 3 weeks and it said nothing was wrong

 

[danzil]

hi there
have you ran anti virus / malware scans on your machine. have you checked for a self replicating virus / worm.
do you know what it i sfilling up with for example...tons of empty text files or jargon filled files....maybe worth monitoring that, that may help pin point the issue.....
what i would try is backing the whole drive up to a spare.
then scanning and cleaning the drive, then running ccleaner AGAIN, then run defraggler (Defraggler - Defragment your files!) just on that drive.
that is my method may work may not.......is there anything at all in event veiwer regarding your drive or controller errors etc.

regards
danzil