Cosbi took all my hard drive space ?

[Soulkeeper]

can anyone help me track down where it put these 1gb files ?
i need my hard drive back now


thanks


edit: ohh yeah i meant COSBI the program not Bill Cosbi (not to be confused)
hehe

 

[NFactor]

That's weird, but assuming it did happen have you tried searching for all files larger than a gigabyte or so?

 

[SilentRunning]

Did you check the recycle bin?

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah i emptied my recycle bin

how would i check for files over a certain size in winxp ??

 

[AIWGuru]

1. Uninstall COSBI.
2. Run CHKDISK (right click on C: go to tools)
3. boot to recovery console and try chkdsk again.
This will probably have fixed it but if it didn't do a search for files over, say 500 megs. The windows search wizard will walk you through this like a 4 year old.

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah it don't need to be uninstalled (just an exe)
chkdsk won't help me

and i guess i could run search and just tell it to list every file on my computer then organize them by size


geez so much trouble

thanks for the help

 

[Soulkeeper]

i'm pretty sure the program would clean up after itself
but i would have to delete like 5 gigs of my stuff now just to give it a chance to finish it's run

 

[Markfw]

I just did a search, and found no unknown large files (>500meg)

 

[Soulkeeper]

i just don't get where it put the files
i did a search for any file larger than 100mb and nothing came that shouldn't have

any ideas ?

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper

chkdsk won't help me

It must be nice to be clairvoyant

Chkdsk will fix mis-referenced files which don't show up in explorer. I used to do tech support. The horrors! There were users who thought they knew best. They asked for advice and then ignored it! Anyway, sometimes I ran across users who had large portions of their hard drives missing. After verifying that this wasn't a decimal-binary "misunderstanding" a chkdsk often found errors on the drive and recovered a lot of space just like that.

 

[DaveSimmons]

It got hungry and there were no more pudding pops.



(Listen to AIWGuru)

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: AIWGuru

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper

chkdsk won't help me

It must be nice to be clairvoyant

Chkdsk will fix mistagged files which don't show up in explorer. When I did tech support (the horrors-users who thought they knew best and when asking for advice, wouldn't take it) Anyway, sometimes I ran across users who had large portions of their hard drives missing. After verifying that this wasn't a decimal binary "misunderstanding" a chkdsk often found errors on the drive and recovered a lot of space just like that.

ok i see
i hope it do didn't something like that
geez

 

[Soulkeeper]

if anyone knows anything about this program specifically let me know please


thanks

 

[sharkeeper]

I've run it countless times and never noticed it chew up space. The only program that does this is IOMeter.

Cheers!

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: AIWGuru

Originally posted by: Soulkeeper

chkdsk won't help me

It must be nice to be clairvoyant

Chkdsk will fix mis-referenced files which don't show up in explorer. I used to do tech support. The horrors! There were users who thought they knew best. They asked for advice and then ignored it! Anyway, sometimes I ran across users who had large portions of their hard drives missing. After verifying that this wasn't a decimal-binary "misunderstanding" a chkdsk often found errors on the drive and recovered a lot of space just like that.

do you suggest running chkdsk /p or chkdsk /r ??

 

[AIWGuru]

First run the windows GUI version. If that doesn't work then boot to recovery console.
Then run:

chkdsk /r /x (the x implies F)

 

[JBT]

I have ran COSBI a few times and have not seen any space depletion.

 

[JBT]

Also check your Temp Directory in C: Documents and settings/user name/temp it may be hidden but just check how much space your user name is taking up If it is much more than 500 MB there is probably a temp file hogging a ton of space.

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah chkdsk didn't seem to fix the problem
i still only have 1.2gb left
this is after deleting 1.2gb of games/apps after the thing took all my hard drive space
i coulda swore i had like 6 or 8gb free

i dunno what happened
i'm bout to just get a new hard drive and reinstall here soon


but thanks everyone for the input and suggestions

 

[AIWGuru]

just pop open your command console right now.
Type chkdsk.
Let it run.
What does it tell you?
Give us all of the numbers in the report. I want to see if the numbers ad up. If they don't, we know there's a problem with the FAT and we can restore it form one of the many backups that NTFS provides for us.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i rebooted and ran it
first i ran chkdsk /p and it said there were errors
so then i ran chkdsk /r and it took forever but i guess it fixed things


ok i'll do that
just a min

 

[Soulkeeper]

ok it is an ntfs partition
here is what i got

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Kitten Katnip>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

20000893 KB total disk space.
18584788 KB in 38845 files.
13548 KB in 2769 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
137057 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
1265500 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
5000223 total allocation units on disk.
316375 allocation units available on disk.

C:\Documents and Settings\Kitten Katnip>

 

[AIWGuru]

Well, it looks like it's fine. Hmm...so there are files somewhere but you don't know where. Strange. What I would do is do a search for the most recent files. Organize by date. You know. Then organize by type. You might find a ton of smallish files all of the same extension created recently...

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: AIWGuru
Well, it looks like it's fine. Hmm...so there are files somewhere but you don't know where. Strange. What I would do is do a search for the most recent files. Organize by date. You know. Then organize by type. You might find a ton of smallish files all of the same extension created recently...

alright thanks again for all the help
i hope i didn't keep you up late or anything

 

[Soulkeeper]

i found the problem woohoo
found a 5.88gb hidden folder in my "recovery bin" and sure enough the "delete me" files were there
this undelete software i just bought is throwing me off
geez

there we go! haha