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    HELP: Unkown lost in Disk Space

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 27, 2007.

  1. Jukeboxmusicman

    Jukeboxmusicman Notebook Guru

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    In the beginning of today I had around 113 gigs of 141 gigs in my harddrive.
    I go onto a couple of sites including this one and watched some youtube videos.
    After that I checked my harddrive again, it went all the way down to 108!?

    I've been trying to regain the unkown lost, but I have no clue what is doing this.

    Please if you have had this occur to you and know how to solve this please help. Or any helpful suggestions.

    THANK YOU! :)
     
    Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 27, 2007
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    Ice-Tea MXM Guru NBR Reviewer

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    Outrigger SupaStar Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    that link doesn't do anything.
     
    Outrigger, Jul 27, 2007
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  4. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    You are right, if you click on it it goes no where. But, if you cut the text and paste it into IE address bar it works fine.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Jul 27, 2007
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  5. Jukeboxmusicman

    Jukeboxmusicman Notebook Guru

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    For some reason I cant get on that site even if I cut and paste because my IE bar says its a bunch of ----------------- marks instead of that.
     
    Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 27, 2007
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  6. vaiouser

    vaiouser Newbie

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    Do you have a very large RAM? It might be that the paging file has become bigger automatically. Also did you enable hibernate? Because then you will have a hidden file as large as your system memory
     
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    Jukeboxmusicman Notebook Guru

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    ? I'm not very good at the computer stat stuff but I have a 2 gig ram thingy how do you access the paging file system? and if I did enable hibernate will that be a very harmful problem? Will it slowly drain my memory away? >.< sry for the questions
     
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    vaiouser Newbie

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    No, hibernate is no problem. It just saves the content of your RAM to hard disk before turning off your laptop. This way the content of the RAM can be restored from hard disk when you turn on your laptop again and you can resume your work right at the point before you put your laptop to hibernate. The hidden hibernate file is as large as your RAM.

    The paging file is controlled by windows. With Vista, when you upgrade your memory, the paging file will automatically become bigger. You can also set the size of the paging file manually or completely disable it but i would not recommend this. Just leave it as it is. With 2 GB of RAM and hibernate enabled you would loos 4 GB of hard drive space. So dont worry, you wont loose hard disk space anymore unless you upgrade your RAM
     
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  9. Jukeboxmusicman

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    thanks a lot! because i lost around that much (4-5 gigs) so now its safe!
     
    Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 27, 2007
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