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    Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
    « on: May 26, 2008, 06:53:21 PM »
    I have an hp pavilion notebook with vista that is about a year old.  In the past week, I've noticed that I'm almost out of disk space.  Its a 105gb hd that only has about 300mb left.  I started uninstalling programs with the uninstall feature but would end up with even less space.  I've run spyware scans, and virus scans with numerous different programs.  I've used disk cleanup and defragment.  I've removed all pictures, movies, and songs, but I'm still showing low disc space.  I've got a few small programs left on there but they are essential ones.  I've run regedit and I do still find items from old programs in there that I delete, but the disk space is still low and doesn't increase even after uninstalling programs.  My c: drive is showing that it is working properly.  I don't know what else to do besides wipe it all out and start over.  Please help!!!

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    Re: Please help! Losing memory!!
    « Reply #1 on: May 26, 2008, 08:05:34 PM »
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    Its a 1gb hd that only has about 300mb left.
    I'm trying to recall when was the last time, I've seen 1GB hard drive?? Windows 95?
    Certainly, not with Vista.

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      Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
      « Reply #2 on: May 26, 2008, 08:18:55 PM »
      Thanks for pointing out my typo.  Its a 105gb drive.

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      Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
      « Reply #3 on: May 26, 2008, 08:37:09 PM »
      Get Disc Space Reporter: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Disc-Space-Reporter.shtml, and see what's taking space.

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        Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
        « Reply #4 on: May 26, 2008, 08:40:33 PM »
        I'll try that thank you!

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          Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
          « Reply #5 on: May 26, 2008, 08:44:03 PM »
          I tried to download it and it shows Error Diskspacereporter.exe is not a valid win32 application.

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          Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
          « Reply #6 on: May 26, 2008, 08:49:10 PM »
          You certainly have some OS problems. Is the laptop still under warranty?

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            Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
            « Reply #7 on: May 26, 2008, 08:51:13 PM »
            Yes it is.  I did find another version and it downloaded and is running.  Even though I've run avg and bitdefender numerous times, could a virus be the problem with the hd? 

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            Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
            « Reply #8 on: May 26, 2008, 08:53:32 PM »
            Download HijackThis:
            http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis/download
            Click on Download HijackThis Installer
            Post HijackTHis log.

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              Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
              « Reply #9 on: May 26, 2008, 08:56:43 PM »
              Okay I ran report disc space and found the problem.  I've been messing with this daily for the past two weeks and it took a few minutes with help from you to figure it out.  THANK YOU!  I found movies on there that I had burned and had deleted from the computer drive but they are still in the burn program.  They are all showing up in the report.  Your great, thanks again!!!

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              Re: Please help! Losing hard drive space!!
              « Reply #10 on: May 26, 2008, 09:06:05 PM »
              Glad to help :)