So, I have a "Seagate Expansion 1TB Black Portable Hard Drive STBX1000101" and have had it for a while, now. I keep all of my games/other space-consuming programs on there, and I have a spare in case that one runs out of space. Anyway, in the past few days, space has been disappearing rapidly. I got home from work earlier today, and found that over 100GB mysteriously disappeared when going to check on it. I had any unnecessary programs open, I wasn't downloading masses of stuff, it just randomly disappeared. I don't want this to happen again, so could anybody suggest what it might be? This is really frustrating. :bang:
Are System Restore and Recycle Bin reserving huge chunks of space? Those are the only culprits I can imagine at the moment. Maybe run CHKDSK. It couldn't hurt to install CCleaner and go on a cleaning rampage using that (including the "wipe free space" feature).
Every few months I have one or two cases here at our service (customers computers without propper anti-virus protection) with same simptoms like you: virus is "eating" space on hard-drive's partition C! Try this combination (by this order): 1). Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10: http://rescuedisk.kaspersky-labs.com/rescuedisk/updatable/kav_rescue_10.iso Download, burn that ISO to make bootable CD, boot system from that CD, do an update to the anti-virus base, check all active partitions and do a AV scan 2). Combofix (fantastic anti-malware program) http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe Use it in Windows Safe Mode with Networking, wait till he update it's base and then wait for him to do a scan and if he finds some type of malware he will remove it automaticaly. After that remove Combofix with "windows key" + "R" and then type: ComboFix /Uninstall 3). Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Free http://fileforum.betanews.com/sendf...20137ebc5161dbb9bb/mbam-setup-1.75.0.1300.exe Download, install free version (uncheck trial), update and then do a Full Scan for malwares 4). SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition http://www.superantispyware.com/downloadfile.html?productid=SUPERANTISPYWAREFREE Download, install, update and do a Complete Scan for malwares 5). CCleaner http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/download/0dd241230f6549493493ff87a51115be/ Download, install, clean the garbage from HDD's
CCleaner was the first thing I went to. I ran it, did a full clean, it cleared up about 15 GB, and got rid of the crap on there. I guess all I can really do is closely monitor the space and currently running programs. Thanks a bunch for the ideas, guys. It means a lot.
