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Hard Drive Self Immolation?
Until last night, my 40 Gig 7200 HDD has been running fine for the 1.5 - 2
years I've owned it. Then I noticed that it was down to 15% free space. Asked my wife if she installed any large programs; nope. So I uninstalled some fairly large game demos, and then I was down to 7 PERCENT. I scanned with an updated Norton Antivirus 2003 and Systemworks, as well as at PCPITSTOP.com, which gave me no suggestions other than to defrag and update my HDD! So, I'm wondering if there's a physical problem with the drive. I'm now down to 185 Megs of space on my Win XP Home Athlon XP+ 1800 system with 768 RAM. If there's a Write head on the drive, is there also an Erase head that may be defective? Anyone got any suggestions, other than Ghost to a larger HDD? Is this one shot? Any help greatly appreciated. TIA, Jim |
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Hello:
In addition to Ralph's suggestion, it may be possible one of those demo programs was spyware which can download and install things without your knowledge. AdAware from Lavasoft is good for rooting out spyware. -- regards, bruce The PC Guy Bruce Von Deylen Pierceton, Ind. USA Serving the computer impaired in northern Indiana and southwest lower Michigan E-mail: brucevdatmichianadotorg "Ralph Mowery" wrote in message news "Sarah Until last night, my 40 Gig 7200 HDD has been running fine for the 1.5 - 2 years I've owned it. Then I noticed that it was down to 15% free space. Asked my wife if she installed any large programs; nope. So I uninstalled some fairly large game demos, and then I was down to 7 PERCENT. I scanned Did you defrag the drive ? Before doing that empty out the Recycle Bin also. Not that it will need it , but have you checked to see if there are any virus on the drive and also if there are a bunch of .tmp files or files that start with a ~ character or something similar that need to be deleted. |
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