"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:39:53 -0400, "mazorj" <mazorj@xxxxxx>
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>> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in
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>> news:2ceg359nm8pbhijq424bjukadk6cmfp34q@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:04:14 -0400, "mazorj" <mazorj@xxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> 2. Does this mean I'm running out of allocation units?
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>> > No, not really. It means you are running out of disk space.
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>> Yes! I just checked the drive on the Computer window. It was down
>> to
>> 1.4 Gig free space. No way! Scrubbing readily accessible unneeded files (including several
thousand posts from the MSC newsgroups!) have kept me between 1.0 -
2.5 GB of free space but for the life of me I cannot find what quickly
ate up and continues to eat 200+ GB on the C: drive. I downloaded
Agent Ransack and use it to see what files are being modified but
couldn't spot any unusual recent disk writes.
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>> However, in a 6/12/09 post to the vista.general newsgroup
>> ("Capturing
>> scrolled command line text") I asked about this. The only reply
>> addressed question #1 (capturing the boot scrolls) so I'll repeat
>> the
>> rest here (minus #1) in hopes that someone can address the bigger
>> questions I posed:
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>> "...after the June 10 MS downloads, on reboot I
>> saw something new to the effect that the OS could not resolve the
>> following drives - each of which was named with one of those long
>> gibberish filenames instead of drive letters. There were no error
>> messages for existing lettered drives... So,
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>> "2. Does anyone know what's happening with these odd drive error
>> messages and whether I need to worry about it? [And could this be
>> a factor in the "disappearing" HD space on C:?]
I guess no one is able to address this question?
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>> > If you delete files you don't need, or make some of them smaller,
>> > you will use less disk space and therefore fewer allocation
>> > units.
Already done.
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>> Prior to the onset of this problem, my HD was only about 1/3 full
>> so
>> whatever is eating up disk space all of a sudden is doing it at a
>> prodigious rate - in days or even hours.
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>> Shadow files may be eating up some space, but what could possibly
>> eat
>> up 2/3 of a 324 GB HD in a few days???
>
> Spyware infection. What anti-spyware programs do you use? Are they
> kept up to date? Have scanned with Norton (daily updates), SuperAntiSpyware, plus one
other whose name escapes me. Not a peep or a burp from any of them.
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>> (It took more than a year for
>> me to use up the first 1/3 of the HD space.) Even if it is shadow
>> files, I'm reluctant to use the routine that deletes all but the
>> last
>> back-up/restore point because I may have to go further back than
>> the
>> last one. Why doesn't Vista allow selective deletion of just some
>> of the previous restore points to free up space?
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> Because restore points are not complete. They build on their
> predecessors. To use one, you also need previous ones. Okay, but then why does Vista offer to delete all but the last restore
point?