Hard disk is full - no it isn't?? Not Solved

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Sorry for the duplicate message - I hit an incorrect key.

My friend's Dimension 2350 is getting the message that the disk is full - but it shouldn't be full. I have run disk cleanup and tried to run disk fragmenter but there's not enough room to do that. I have cleaned up the temporary files, cookies, restore points, etc - but I am still getting the disk is full message.

I have looked in practically every folder on the drive but I can't find the extra 22,000,000,000 bytes.

They let the virus protection lag, so my guess is that there is garbage somewhere on the drive, but I can't find it.

More info -

The virus protection didn't lag - it seems to have disappeared. They were using the free Avast.

Also another odd thing - after clicking on Disk Cleanup, the system starts to try and download Microsoft Office Edition 2003 - but they don't have MO.

Please help - thanks.

PETER345 · Answer

Did you run chkdsk?   Peter

ditball · Answer

Yes I did - the results looked ok to me.

bumwithshoes · Answer

if you feel confident all is running ok other than low disk space you can delete the restore points to free up enough space to defrag or reduce it to 4pct..............my guess is you're not using an external drive to store pics,movies etc?

ditball · Answer

There was only one restore point - the day before. I feel that something is filling up the disk that we can't see - they mainly use the computer for email and internet; there's only a few pictures on the hard drive. I went thru most of the folders and couldn't see where the space was.

bumwithshoes · Answer

you can download free trial antivirus from any of the top av makers that's the route i'd take then when you feel it's ok uninstall and try AVG Free

bumwithshoes · Answer

Diskeeper can defrag drives that are too low on space for Windows defragment tool you can get free trial at Diskeeper.com to try it out,one thing to remember with Diskeeper is you have to stop the service before you can uninstall it once installed it replaces windows defragger after uninstall Windows defrag will return to system tools

As for space i'd go into control panel:add/remove programs and see what's been installed there you can get an idea of what you have and what's not necessary and remove some to free up more space

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Hard disk is full - no it isn't?? Not Solved

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