Hard Drive Fills up for seemingly no reason

[smittywes38]

Hello All,

I have come upon 2 computers that have hard drive issues. Operating system is XP Pro. Virtual Memory is about 720 MG on both.
Each computer shows the hard drive as full. Maxed out. No room for even doing a diagostic. However, each computer should have at least 25 gigs free. In searching for files to delete to free up space there isn't any files that indicate a massive amount causing the hard drives to be filled up. I had to reimage both drives and then ran chkdisk which indicated the drives were good.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to how this could happen? Each computer is on a microsoft network.

Thanks,

Smittywes38

 

[BadBigBen]

check System Restore settings, Outlook PST files, as a starter...

Hyperfil.sys may also be a culprit here...

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
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Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[goombawaho]

Well, there is a REASON the drive is filling up. You have to identify WHAT folder is filling up the drive.

TreeSizePro free edition will tell you which folder is the hog.

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/

I use the paid version and it's good software.

 

[smittywes38]

Thanks for the input folks. I will look at these suggestions today. We'll see if they help.
I figured something was loading off the network, At any rate I hope to respond here with a success story.

Thanks again.

Smittywes