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    My hard drive space has ran away ?? AGGGHHH !

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jaboyle, Sep 20, 2008.

  1. jaboyle

    jaboyle Notebook Geek

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    Basically,
    I have a lot of missing hard drive space which I have no idea where its gone to,

    I downloaded 'windirstat' and it gave me a visual representation of where all my memory has gone to,

    there are 3 that im bothered about,

    1. 'migwiz' (extension .bkf), and a microsoft symbol.

    its taking up 66gb !!!!!!

    What is this, do i need it and can I delete it ?

    I cant find it on my computer either ?

    2. 'winzip file' (extension .cab), 24gb space used

    What is this, do i need it and can I delete it ?

    I cant find it on my computer so I dont know how to delete it,

    3. 'winzip file' (extension .zip) 12gb space used

    What is this, do i need it and can I delete it ?

    I also cant find it on my computer??



    many kind regards to any helper !!
     
    jaboyle, Sep 20, 2008
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  2. LPTP-LVR

    LPTP-LVR Notebook Deity

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    That sounds bad!! I know there's supposed to be two files of the same size as your RAM in c:/windows (don't remember what they should be called) and you could delete one of them but never saw anything with these sizes. Did you try looking up the filenames+extension on google or anything?
     
    LPTP-LVR, Sep 20, 2008
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  3. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    .bkf is a backup file

    Where are these files located?

    More info on your system too
     
    flipfire, Sep 20, 2008
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