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 Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:27 pm
Fellow ATGrs, I'm hoping you tech savvy peoples of the group can help me out. I'm a little worried that someting on my PC is goobling up the free space. I'm worried I could have a worm or virus or something.
I use VIsta Ultimate 32bit. I have a secondary har drive where I send all my torrent downlaods, and over the past two weeks ive had internet as slow as dial-up cause I went over my download limit (that was me downloading too much not a worm or virus) so I don't know how the last 2 GB of free space in my main Hard Drive were reduced to 409 MB and is slowly continuing to drop.
Any help is appreciated.
Perhaps others would like to talk of there computer issues and something similar may help. And also to spoon feed discussion biggrin
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 3:21 pm
Um, did you somehow set Windows up to do a routine backup/sync of some files on your system drive, inadvertently selecting your secondary drive as a destination? Just a thought, I had a customer call me about that exact thing once in the past.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 3:26 pm
I'm pretty sure thats a negative. I wouldn't even know how to get windows to back stuff up without me manually makng a copy of files.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 4:19 pm
Check your recovery and backup centre just in case.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 5:28 pm
Firstly I'd like to add that I moved a few big movie files to my other hard drive a couple of week ago which gave me that 2GB of space. So its been depleted twice.
Secondly how does one check that xd
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:06 pm
Well, I am not a vista user, but in win XP system recovery was enable by default, Kals probably meant that too, and all the little rollback states it saved ate quite a bit of space. This link explains how to disable it.Good luck.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:24 pm
Surely though this wouldn't eat up several GB of space though confused
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:32 pm
Well, it ate quite a few gigs in my case, or else I wouldn't have deactivated it...
I don't wanna say something cliché as this..but..it is a microsoft product <.<
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 6:51 pm
Lololol. Well I like to think more along the lines of "Ergh... Computer Product" everything has issues. just liek the consoles etc. I shall try out this system recovery thing.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 7:04 pm
********! I just did the turn off recovery thing and 27GB was returned eek WTF man? Stupid VISTA is Stupid.
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 11:09 am
I am an old ATG member =]Microsoft has horns with a halo on topClick here to PM Me regarding ATG.
Captain Shram has answered your thread
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 11:44 am
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:08 pm
Surazal Dloc eek WTF man? Stupid VISTA is Stupid. You wouldn't be saying that if you needed to restore your system. It's simply over zelous in it's work.
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:46 pm
yeah I would suggest that rather than turning it off, you might want to limit the amount of space it is allowed to take up, so you at least have the most recent restore points to go back to. If it's dumping stuff on a different partition though, that's not system restore, it's Vista being stupid. Unless you told it to do that.
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Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 2:55 pm
I had this same problem. Vista has the darnest system recovery. Funny thing is, only ultimate can actually utilize this recovery from what I've read. And I don't have that, so why is it enabled anyways? It just grinds my gears they really don't tell you about this from the get go...
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