Re: OT:PC problem

bobalongcassidy wrote:
Hi Guys

I have a rather unusual problem with my PC. I am rapidly losing disc space.
I usually keep about 100Gig free, but last Saturday this was going down
(within about 90 mins) to only 10Gig. I rebooted the machine, and it brought
it back up to the usual amount, however, it started losing it again. The
only solution was to shut down the PC, and that seemed to work
fine.....until today, when it's doing exactly the same thing, but this time,
shutting down restores the lost space, but it continues to lose it over the
course of about two hours. I have ran a virus, anti-spy, did a disk cleanup
etc etc, but nothing seems to help.

Tried firing up the Task Manager? On XP Pro, press CTRL+ALT+DEL then click
Task Manager; on XP Home, just press CTRL+ALT+DEL. Click on the 'Processes'
tab and click on the Mem Usage column header twice to sort by memory usage
in descending order. You should see what's hogging your memory, and
possibly eating away at your virtual memory page file.

Failing that, grab a copy of Process Explorer from the sysinternals.com
site: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html Run that
and you'll get a list of running processes. Right-click to the right of the
Company Name column and click Select Columns. Click on the 'Process
Performance' tab and click both I/O Read Bytes and I/O Write Bytes tick
boxes. Click OK. You can now sort running processes by the amount of data
they are writing to disk by clicking the I/O Write Bytes column twice.
Hopefully that'll show you what process is battering at the hard disk and
chewing up space!

Good luck!

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