On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:50:01 -0700, scottyjamison wrote:
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> I am a relatively unexperienced windows vista user using windows home
> premium at 32 bit on an acer aspire 6920 notebook. I noticed that
> occassionaly my disk space would drop dramatically without me doing
> anything. 100s of mbs would just disappear for no reason, so probably
> being stupid i decided to run the disk fragmenter to try and fix the
> problem. BUT to my horror i was shocked to find that the disk
> fragmenter began to eat up my hard disk space big style. I went from
> 79.7GB to 72.5GB in just over an hour.
>
> What the hell happened and can it be fixed? can i get my disk space
> back? i thought the disk fragmenter was supposed to help your computer
> not rob it.
>
> does anyone else have this problem and can someone please help me? im
> kinda desparate, i cant believe it.
>
> P.S if someone is kind enough to give me advice and you keep it simple
> so i can understand and follow it.
I wonder where you found the "disk fragmenter" - most folks use a disk
defragmenter - though I'm not sure why - this IS the 21st century and a
properly designed filesystem should not need it.