losing hard drive space!

[joecls]

Help! i have a system that is losing hard drive space without any data being manually put into it. i have not downloaded anything and concurrently not installed any software. but still my hardrive space is dissappearing! we're talking about gigs at a time!
any advice would be appreciated.

[MDS]

first I would run scandisk and see what it comes up with. What ver of windows are you running as I've heard of some file in XP that grows outragous I'll see if I can dig up the post. Also it would hurt to run ad-aware and virus scan

[Jeordiewhite]

Are you running xp? it monitors files and backs them up incase something happens.
Go into start > right click my computer > properties > go to the tab > system restore.
You can turn it off if you like, and also, right click on the main folders in your drives like programs files and windows and see which is the largest.

[MDS]

Jeordiewhite thats what I was thinking of I don't play with XP much as I prefer win2kpro.

[evolone]

Originally Posted by Jeordiewhite

Are you running xp? it monitors files and backs them up incase something happens.
Go into start > right click my computer > properties > go to the tab > system restore.
You can turn it off if you like, and also, right click on the main folders in your drives like programs files and windows and see which is the largest.

I thought i had a bad Virus i downloaded every virus scan program i could find and nothing. i feel retarded thanks.
i have a question my Comp. Shuts down and restarts automatically for no reason any thoughts?

[ShuckyD]

please dont dig up an old thread and bring it back... create a new thread with your question and I'm sure you will get more attention towards it.

BTW, Welcome to TechIMO!!!

P.S. ~ my first thought is insufficient power supply, post a new thread and others will chime in as well.

Thanks