Free space on hard drive

I have an issue with windows vista ultimate. About 1 hours ago I had 25.1 GB
of free space on my primary hard drive. Within the last hour I have been
loosing about 100 MB of space every minute. I would hit the refresh button in
my computer, I can see the hard drives free space becoming smaller and
smaller. After it dropped to 21.3 GB, it seems to have stoped. That is almost
4 GB of space that has been filled on its own, because I have not downloaded
anything at all within this time frame. Is it possible that the OS is reading
the free space inaccurately? Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Any
help, or advice given, will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Fresh install?
Enable Hibernate?
Creating a system retore point?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"David N" <> wrote in message
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>I have an issue with windows vista ultimate. About 1 hours ago I had 25.1
>GB
> of free space on my primary hard drive. Within the last hour I have been
> loosing about 100 MB of space every minute. I would hit the refresh button
> in
> my computer, I can see the hard drives free space becoming smaller and
> smaller. After it dropped to 21.3 GB, it seems to have stoped. That is
> almost
> 4 GB of space that has been filled on its own, because I have not
> downloaded
> anything at all within this time frame. Is it possible that the OS is
> reading
> the free space inaccurately? Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Any
> help, or advice given, will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

It is a fresh install. I haven't yet enabled hibernate, or created a restore
point. Today actually, the problem is the other way around. Last night I left
it at 23.1 GB, today it is actually climbing, not falling. It said 22.1 GB at
first, but after I refreshed, it now reads 22.2 and climbing. I am honestly
at a loss here. I haven't installed, or uninstalled anything at all. Please
let me know what you think, and thanks for the help Rick Rogers.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Fresh install?
> Enable Hibernate?
> Creating a system retore point?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "David N" <> wrote in message
> news:850D1ED1-1869-4085-8EFC-...
> >I have an issue with windows vista ultimate. About 1 hours ago I had 25.1
> >GB
> > of free space on my primary hard drive. Within the last hour I have been
> > loosing about 100 MB of space every minute. I would hit the refresh button
> > in
> > my computer, I can see the hard drives free space becoming smaller and
> > smaller. After it dropped to 21.3 GB, it seems to have stoped. That is
> > almost
> > 4 GB of space that has been filled on its own, because I have not
> > downloaded
> > anything at all within this time frame. Is it possible that the OS is
> > reading
> > the free space inaccurately? Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Any
> > help, or advice given, will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
>

Don't forget file indexing. I'm not sure how big the indexes get, but for a
few
days after an install it indexes files for fast searches.

-- Larry Maturo


"David N" <> wrote in message
news:94D653E8-43C2-46C6-A167-...
> It is a fresh install. I haven't yet enabled hibernate, or created a
> restore
> point. Today actually, the problem is the other way around. Last night I
> left
> it at 23.1 GB, today it is actually climbing, not falling. It said 22.1 GB
> at
> first, but after I refreshed, it now reads 22.2 and climbing. I am
> honestly
> at a loss here. I haven't installed, or uninstalled anything at all.
> Please
> let me know what you think, and thanks for the help Rick Rogers.
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Fresh install?
>> Enable Hibernate?
>> Creating a system retore point?
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "David N" <> wrote in message
>> news:850D1ED1-1869-4085-8EFC-...
>> >I have an issue with windows vista ultimate. About 1 hours ago I had
>> >25.1
>> >GB
>> > of free space on my primary hard drive. Within the last hour I have
>> > been
>> > loosing about 100 MB of space every minute. I would hit the refresh
>> > button
>> > in
>> > my computer, I can see the hard drives free space becoming smaller and
>> > smaller. After it dropped to 21.3 GB, it seems to have stoped. That is
>> > almost
>> > 4 GB of space that has been filled on its own, because I have not
>> > downloaded
>> > anything at all within this time frame. Is it possible that the OS is
>> > reading
>> > the free space inaccurately? Has anyone encountered a similar issue?
>> > Any
>> > help, or advice given, will be highly appreciated. Thank you in
>> > advance.
>>
>>