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    Weird Harddrive question on P-7805u...

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by SemiGamer, Feb 14, 2009.

  1. SemiGamer

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    Okay how to explain this...
    Well, Thursday night I had 100GB remaining.
    Last night, I had 95.2GB remaining.
    Tonight I have 84.6GB remaining.
    I'm not installing/downloading/saving. ANYTHING..
    Wheres my space going? o_O
     
  2. s2odin

    s2odin Merrica!

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  3. SemiGamer

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    Thanks.
    But what have I done since Thursday to make it "Need" that space...? All I've done is browsed (On here, on myspace, and on aol.com for my mail) and played Call Of Duty 4...?
     
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    Sounds like a software problem to me.

    Find whatever is taking up all that space.
     
  5. SemiGamer

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    Any guidelines on what kind of software it could be or?

    EDIT:
    Oddly enough, Running O&O Defrag got it all back for me, Plus 3GB.
    Took 2hours to run it and I have 103GB now.
    Odd thing is I just ran a Defrag on Wednesday, I don't get how 18GB of space got "fragmented" in 2days without downloading, installing, or anything.
    Oh well. Thanks for the help anyway :)
     
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    CCleaner might help, not sure what it could be though other than system restore. interesting to hear that defrag helped
     
  7. SemiGamer

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    CCleaner is a nightly thing for me, I tried running it before the defrag but it didn't help :\ still love it though :D
    Yeah I'm really stumped on what the problem was. Oh well... Just glad I've got my space back! lol