C drive space (potential Virus)

[skullcube]

Hi guys.

My C drive has a total space of 146 GB. Out of that, if I right click and check the size of the folders (including hidden), around 50 GB is used. Windows, however, shows that there is only 12.4 GB of free space on my hard drive (around 83.6 GB is utilized by something I am not aware of).

Page file settings are set to automatic and I tried changing these to around 6 GB but nothing changed.

The weird thing is that I recently deleted a massive folder from C (around 10 GB). Space freed up but then it started filling up automatically till only 12.4 GB space was left (every time I opened "MyComputer" more space had been taken over till only 12.4 gb was left).

I tried AVG antivirus and the bit defender antivirus (both free versions) but they did not detect anything. Can someone please assist me in this?

 

[Fardringle]

Click on the Windows Start button, and in the search box type command.
Right-click on Command Prompt in the search results and left click Run as adminstrator.
In the Command Prompt window type CHKDSK /R and select "Yes" when asked if you want to schedule a full scan the next time the system restarts.
Reboot the computer and let it go through the full disk check, then check the disk space again after Windows finishes booting.

 

[skullcube]

Hi CHKDSK did not really help. I did discover something new thou

I downloaded I-Disk to check which files are using up the space. It revealed something weird.

There are two locations:

C:/Windows/system32/config/systemprofile/appdata/local/avg2014/dump (occupying 78.15 GB)

C:/Windows/syswow64/config/systemprofile/appdata/local/avg2014/dump (occupying another 78.15 GB)

The thing is that I have uninstalled avg from my computer, yet these folders remain. Now I am not sure whether I can simply delete these dump folders because they are in the windows folder and I do not want to mess up windows. Any advice?

Edit: Also right-clicking on these folders (the system32 and syswow64) and going to properties shows normal size.

 

[HOSED]

GOOD find! I would try running disk cleanup advanced version: http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...anup-create-shortcuts-without-batch-file.html
My instinct says delete the files, but if you want to play it safe move the files to a USB drive or create a full system image then just delete both.

 

[KillerBee]

Glad it worked for you but that I-disk program looks pretty old - last update 2006?

Windirstat is a more up2date space checker:
http://www.fosshub.com/WinDirStat.html

 

[KeithP]

Here is a link to an old forum post on AVG's support site about another person complaining about the space their AVG dump directory is taking up.

http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=200957

Avg's response, "For help on your situation please delete all dumps, update AVG and if new dumps will be created provide us with them." You probably want to check their support site for the latest information.

-KeithP