Whats wrong with my hard drive?

sw: hehe, short and to the point it could be windows, it does take up space with excessive amounts of nothing

mass mailer worms do have the propensity to fill your hdd with rubbish, as to viruses like Nimda, and many many more. Do you have updated AV, and have you run a scan? Other than that, have you checked you files and folders to see if their reported sizes are what they´re supposed to be? if you find a folder that´s supposed to be, say, 3.8mb, and it´s actually taking up 40% of your hd, then that tells you youve got a problem. Might also be an idea to run chkdsk /f. You haven´t got extra partitions have you? bit hard this without actually seeeing the contents of the drive meself. Eskie and Mustie will be checking inlater, do what I´ve told you then get the boys on the case later when I´ve gone to bed.

whats a partition? whats chkdsk? oh and I updated and ran AVG, It found over 800 files infected by "Netsky-B" but after removing them all it couldnt remove 38 files. I think its these 38 files who keep spawning more and more files to take up space. Strangely, after running AVG, and after removing those, most of those 800 files. My harddrive still was just as full as ever. I ran Adaware updated and scanned and cleaned all the adware/spyware out aswell. The only thing that managed to free up about a gig (it was 2 before i freed up an extra gig) by running Disk Cleanup. "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

Check the sizes of the game folders individually, some games these days can be massive once they´re fully installed. It might be just those "There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don´t"

How bigs the porn folder though?

There could be SO many things causing your drive to fill up. Windows is certainly one of them. Your internet cache might be set really high. You may have tons of duplicate files from old software installs. Uninstalled programs that did not FULLY uninstall. Saved game folders and files. There are a number of software programs that are designed to search your hard drive and clean up all unneccessary files. Check some of them out. Here´s a couple links to get you started: http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/A…4520-7297_16-4207951.html http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/A…4520-6033_16-4207261.html Good luck, Wap

Sweet thanks wap. Ill run it and see if it fixes anything. "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla

Chips, is that realy the 1st thing on your mind reading a post on TLR (&lt;-- See, I got it right 1st time <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>) Realy man, you´re to fixed on this site <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Anyway, try to defrag. Dunno if it´s been said before, though I´m sure it is. But I´m to bored to read and to smart not to post completely useless posts. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edit: Wap, when did you return here? Dig my sig. I´m to sexy for my sig, to sexy for my sig, to sexy for my sig *** The Titan flies like a cow <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> *** Fight like a Warlord Edited by - Nickless on 4/21/2004 2:51:16 PM

Nick, I´ve been browsing the forum for a while now, but I started posting again more frequently about a month or so ago. Much more in the last couple weeks. Well, more than in the last year anyway. Started playing Freelancer like crazy again about a month ago, so I figured I´d come see how TLR was doing. Cheers, Wap

Com - Standard procedure is to check the size of each folder on your HDD, and see if any have an usually large amount of data in them. Eg. if your &quot;Documents and Settings&quot; folder is 20gb - obviously, something is wrong <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. Also, NetSky-B? *Shakes head* You´re right Taw; no-one listens <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. Edited by - esquilax on 4/21/2004 4:22:31 PM

well there´s the answer, it´s squillions of fake e-mails and cr*p attachments, even if it´s got rid of, it´ll still have chucked over that database under Outlook/OE, Paradox is it or summat, I dunnno. Anyway it will have trashed that and f*kt lots of Active/X controls. So even if you get shot of it, there´ll be so much damage that you might as well reformat and reinstall anyway <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> sorry guy, that´s what i´d do. Getting rid of its gonna be a b*gger anyway, cos it sounds like it´s got into system files that AV can´t quarantine, delete or repair because they´re in use and/or critical to the o/s. You could try the Stinger (not you Rob but almost!<img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>) from macafee´s site, it´s a free download, it hits all the newer worms and viruses and clears the registry out, tis pretty good. But other than that, it´s gonna be a reinstall after reformatting to clean the disk off. again, sorry but no good news here <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

I agree Taw, but he may not have an XP CD ( he may be another Dell/HP user <img src=smilies/icon_smile_dead.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>). Still, as I always say, a clean install is the way to go! Yep. A clean install is what the techies order! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - esquilax on 4/21/2004 4:52:34 PM

Yeah I usually reformat at the first sign of problems hehe. I just backup everything I need on CDs and start fresh. I think Ill do that. Yeah I have a WinXP CD <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> &quot;The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.&quot; - Nikola Tesla

Have fun! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Maybe try imaging weh you have a fresh (and stable) install... it´s a hell of a lot faster than reinstalling XP.