Hard drive losing free space for no reason?????

[MCarlisle]

Hello all, I'm in need of some help so I reposted this from the other forum.

What would make a hard drive increase without adding me installing or downloading anything???

I bought an Asus laptop on Windows Vista, and for some strange reason, every time I check the hard drive stats, the used space has jumped up by SEVERAL GIGABYTES. I haven't downloaded any music, videos, or software, bootleg or legal.

I didn't know what to do so I took some notes on different days:

2009-04-25, 12:02pm
30.3 GB Used space
192 GB Free space

2009-04-30, 6:30pm
46.9 GB Used space
175 GB Free space

2009-05-02, 3:46pm
49.3 GB Used space
172 GB Free space

2009-05-03, 12:46pm
51.8 GB Used space
170 GB Free space


Any idea of what's going on???

 

[TFT]

I'm not a Vista man myself but two things to check.
I believe there are two inbuilt systems in Vista that could affect HD space.
1) System Restore settings may need altering, these look after your System files.
2) Shadow Copy settings, this can play havoc with your HD space as it makes copies of every non system file, and could be shadow copying on a daily basis.

It might pay to look into these settings.

 

[MCarlisle]

1) System Restore settings may need altering, these look after your System files...

You were right! I installed Tune Up Utilities and deleted all the restore points, over 40 gigs. Thanks a lot, man! I really appreciate it! I thought my laptop was defective or affected by a virus or something...

 

[iamsneaky13]

lol the same thing happened to me it took up over 50gb! vista really needs to fix its issues

 

[Bodaggit23]

Wow. The old ones are supposed to be deleted by the OS.

Nice job Bill!

 

[wardhanster]

do what above people said and check wether hibernation mode is on or not if its on then change it to of, if every thing is right then what i suspect is , there is a viruse in your system which is either copying itself or generating meaningless big files.... UPDATE ur antiviruse...
get a copy of tuneup utilities 2009 (its 15 day trail) and use it to optimise your system.
here is the link
www.tune-up.com

 

[Bodaggit23]

do what above people said

Problem solved in second post.

 

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[zainuintel]

aah tune up the best

saves me all the time