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Old September 22nd, 2009, 06:59 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Whats happening to my HDD??

Hi i have recently had problems with my hard drive it keeps loosing memory when i haven't installed or saved anything so i decided to factory reset my laptop and it did nothing my hard drive started slowly filling up again and today i installed microsoft office which only takes 600Mb of space and since installing it i have lost 6Gb? Why is this happening??
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Old September 22nd, 2009, 07:26 PM     #2 (permalink)
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I would run some spyware checks.

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Yer but i have reset my computer back to when i bought it deletes everything you have to create user account again so cant be cause everything was erased
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Okay well have a look with that scanner it will show you everything on your HDD and you can see what is taking up all the space. Have you run disk cleanup?
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Yer like i say i cleaned absolutely everything and i have this hard disk scanner its winderstat
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