Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space normally
on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs free. I cleaned up
some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free.. Still 30-40 gigs off what is
normally free. This morning I wake up and I have 14 gigs free, the computer
was on all night. I have checked everything I can think of to find the
missing space. 70 gigs does not disapear in 2 nights. The only changes made
to the system was a Windows update on Nov 20th, for Windows update, that is
around when this started. The only software that runs in the background is
Diskeeper 2008 which has been running since Day 1 of installation of Vista,
(last June). and Windows Home Server Connector software. Nothing else out of
the norm is running.. Any ideas on what could be eating hard drive space?
Thanks in advance..

Al D wrote:
Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space
normally on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs free. I
cleaned up some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free.. Still 30-40 gigs
off what is normally free. This morning I wake up and I have 14 gigs
free, the computer was on all night. I have checked everything I can
think of to find the missing space. 70 gigs does not disapear in 2
nights. The only changes made to the system was a Windows update on Nov
20th, for Windows update, that is around when this started. The only
software that runs in the background is Diskeeper 2008 which has been
running since Day 1 of installation of Vista, (last June). and Windows
Home Server Connector software. Nothing else out of the norm is
running.. Any ideas on what could be eating hard drive space? Thanks in
advance..

Welcome to the Vista, the horrible version of windows.

Your problem is called shadow copy, aka old versions.

Vista wants to keep copies of every single file you move or delete from
your computer!

Isnt that stupid? YES IT IS!

you need to do a disk clean up, cleaning these stupid files is one of
the options there

go he
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...139d91033.mspx

and notice this:
System Restore and Shadow Copies. Prompts you to delete all but the most
recent restore point on the disk.

Thanks for the info, but I did run a disk cleanup and also deleted all but
the last restore point last night, but when I woke up this morning I was an
additional 30 gigs lost.. I'm sure tomorrow morning I will find out what is
causing this problem when I wake up to find the computer has 0 space free
and either it be locked up or at least have an error message..


"power 3" wrote in message
...
Al D wrote:
Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space
normally on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs free. I
cleaned up some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free.. Still 30-40 gigs
off what is normally free. This morning I wake up and I have 14 gigs
free, the computer was on all night. I have checked everything I can
think of to find the missing space. 70 gigs does not disapear in 2
nights. The only changes made to the system was a Windows update on Nov
20th, for Windows update, that is around when this started. The only
software that runs in the background is Diskeeper 2008 which has been
running since Day 1 of installation of Vista, (last June). and Windows
Home Server Connector software. Nothing else out of the norm is running..
Any ideas on what could be eating hard drive space? Thanks in advance..

Welcome to the Vista, the horrible version of windows.

Your problem is called shadow copy, aka old versions.

Vista wants to keep copies of every single file you move or delete from
your computer!

Isnt that stupid? YES IT IS!

you need to do a disk clean up, cleaning these stupid files is one of the
options there

go he
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...139d91033.mspx

and notice this:
System Restore and Shadow Copies. Prompts you to delete all but the most
recent restore point on the disk.

"Al D" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the info, but I did run a disk cleanup and also deleted all but
the last restore point last night, but when I woke up this morning I was
an additional 30 gigs lost.. I'm sure tomorrow morning I will find out
what is causing this problem when I wake up to find the computer has 0
space free and either it be locked up or at least have an error message..

Have you tried browsing the drive, looking for folders containing 50 GB of
files?

Clearly something funky is going on, Vista by itself does not do this.

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:14:32 -0500, "Al D"
wrote:

Thanks for the info, but I did run a disk cleanup and also deleted all but
the last restore point last night, but when I woke up this morning I was an
additional 30 gigs lost.. I'm sure tomorrow morning I will find out what is
causing this problem when I wake up to find the computer has 0 space free
and either it be locked up or at least have an error message..

Is Diskeeper running in VSS Compatibility mode on your system
drive/partition? It should be.

To answer the 2 quesitons, yes I have gone through the HD looking for larger
then normal files, and can't seem to find any although I will look again.
and yes Diskeeper is running in VSS mode.. Thanks for the help guys..


"Louie" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:14:32 -0500, "Al D"
wrote:

Thanks for the info, but I did run a disk cleanup and also deleted all but
the last restore point last night, but when I woke up this morning I was
an
additional 30 gigs lost.. I'm sure tomorrow morning I will find out what
is
causing this problem when I wake up to find the computer has 0 space free
and either it be locked up or at least have an error message..

Is Diskeeper running in VSS Compatibility mode on your system
drive/partition? It should be.

In article ,
power 3 wrote:

Your problem is called shadow copy, aka old versions.

Vista wants to keep copies of every single file you move or delete from
your computer!

Isnt that stupid? YES IT IS!


No, shadow copy is very excellent. It's a very advanced feature
for a workstation filesystem, and allows you to make backups of files in
use as well as recover files that you "accidentally" deleted or modified.

It doesn't precisely use "extra" space, it's called "copy on write"
so for instance if you create file foo there's a single copy that exists
in both the real file system and the shadow copy. If you change foo then
only that block is actually copied, not the whole file.

Since you have already tried System Restore without much success, I suggest
you make sure all your data is (are?) backed up to an external drive, and
then wipe the hard drive and reinstall everything. I do this once or twice a
year and it usually gets rid of all the little bugs and glitches that have
mounted up. Takes some time, but it's good for the soul.

Good luck

"Al D" wrote:

Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space normally
on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs free. I cleaned up
some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free.. Still 30-40 gigs off what is
normally free. This morning I wake up and I have 14 gigs free, the computer
was on all night. I have checked everything I can think of to find the
missing space. 70 gigs does not disapear in 2 nights. The only changes made
to the system was a Windows update on Nov 20th, for Windows update, that is
around when this started. The only software that runs in the background is
Diskeeper 2008 which has been running since Day 1 of installation of Vista,
(last June). and Windows Home Server Connector software. Nothing else out of
the norm is running.. Any ideas on what could be eating hard drive space?
Thanks in advance..

Looks like that is what I might have to do I just lost 5 gigs of space in a
matter of 45 minutes with the system just sitting idle...


"Tonyo UK" wrote in message
...
Since you have already tried System Restore without much success, I
suggest
you make sure all your data is (are?) backed up to an external drive, and
then wipe the hard drive and reinstall everything. I do this once or twice
a
year and it usually gets rid of all the little bugs and glitches that have
mounted up. Takes some time, but it's good for the soul.

Good luck

"Al D" wrote:

Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space
normally
on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs free. I cleaned
up
some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free.. Still 30-40 gigs off what is
normally free. This morning I wake up and I have 14 gigs free, the
computer
was on all night. I have checked everything I can think of to find the
missing space. 70 gigs does not disapear in 2 nights. The only changes
made
to the system was a Windows update on Nov 20th, for Windows update, that
is
around when this started. The only software that runs in the background
is
Diskeeper 2008 which has been running since Day 1 of installation of
Vista,
(last June). and Windows Home Server Connector software. Nothing else out
of
the norm is running.. Any ideas on what could be eating hard drive space?
Thanks in advance..

"Al D" wrote:

Looks like that is what I might have to do I just lost 5 gigs of space in a
matter of 45 minutes with the system just sitting idle...

Have you run several of the leading malware detectors/removers?

Richie Hardwick