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losing all memory and system restore points

dvtrv

dvtrv

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Please, Please can someone help me?

I have 232gb hard drive. I had 154 free space until suddenly I received a warning of low memory and looking at "computer" there was no longer free space.
I looked to do a system restore and there were none left.
I recently created a restore point and even that is no longer there.

I have Windows Home Premium, Dell Inspiron 1525 with Pentium Dua-Core Processor.

Please help.

TThank you,

Dave.
 
Could you clarify:

1) Did something fill up your hard drive, occupying the free space? e.g., it's a 232 GB drive full of 232 GB of data.

or

2) Did the free space vanish, so now there is no free space but the drive "shrank" (e.g., your 232 GB drive with 154 GB free suddenly became an 80 GB drive with no free space).
 
I am attempting a scan as I type this. I was planning on doing this but have not had chance for a few days.

I have looked for large files but cannot see anything that show up as being large.

My C Drive has not shrunked in size but I know I have lost around 150GB over night and I cannot sem to see anything unusual apart from that. Yes the disc has about 150GB missing and sems to have vanished.

I habe as 232GB drive full of 232GB of data.
 
full disk check?

Once I've seen a file in winsxs use about 30GB on its own. Maybe do a *.* search then sort by size?
 
I used Malware-Antimalware and it detected no threats.

I have done a CHKDSK and nothing was found or reapaired.

I'm going do a scan with Spybot Search and destroy as I know thi finds things others don't.

Thanks so far and I will let you all know.

I recently reinstalled windows vista home premium and got it working properly. I just felt it needed doing.
 
Are you low on memory or hard drive space? If your restore points have disappeared, try turning off system restore and see if that helps.
 
My winsxs folder is 14GB in case that makes you feel any better about it 🙂

Did you search that partition for *.* and sorted by size?

Have you checked the size of the pagefile?

Enabling the admin account might allow you greater freedom in file system searching and browsing, though admittedly there are still some areas with admin-unfriendly permissions.
 
mikeymikec said:
My winsxs folder is 14GB in case that makes you feel any better about it 🙂

Did you search that partition for *.* and sorted by size?

Have you checked the size of the pagefile?

Enabling the admin account might allow you greater freedom in file system searching and browsing, though admittedly there are still some areas with admin-unfriendly permissions.
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I searched for that by typing in winsxs that is all and I did a right click, properties to establish the size.
I do not know whay you mean re "size of pagefile" please explain.
I am also not too sure regarding "Enabling the admin account", please could you explain that as well?

This is something new for me so I appreciate you parience on this.😕

I look foreward to youir responses.
 
You'll have to clarify and verify some stuff 1st. Ensure your 230GB drive is still a 230GB partition. Check in 'Disk Management.' Look at the free space. If it's low, find out what's eating it using windirstat from windirstat.info.

Before running windirstat, right click it to 'run as administrator' If you don't see that option, right click it to go to properties and dig through the tabs to find that settting. Best of luck.
 
dvtrv said:
I searched for that by typing in winsxs that is all and I did a right click, properties to establish the size.
I do not know whay you mean re "size of pagefile" please explain.
I am also not too sure regarding "Enabling the admin account", please could you explain that as well?

This is something new for me so I appreciate you parience on this.😕

I look foreward to youir responses.
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Ok, the file size search was meant from the root of the drive, not winsxs.

You could check the size of the page file by enabling hidden files and 'protected operating system files', then looking on the root of the drive, you should find a file called pagefile.sys.

I assume you're still very low on space, to enabling the admin account perhaps isn't a good idea at this time. At a command prompt with administrator privileges (right-click on the command prompt shortcut in the start menu and 'Run as Administrator'), you can enable the admin account with the following command:

NET USER ADMINISTRATOR /ACTIVE:YES

But I wouldn't recommend it until you've exhausted the list of things you can do as your user (which has admin privs but it makes things a little more complicated and more protected).

-edit - Sorry, I thought you said you had already checked more basic possibilities for what is using up all the space. Try right-clicking on your user's folder in C:\Users and seeing how much space is being used by your user profile. That's probably a better start than gallivanting around with admin privs.
 
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Visualize your data usage with this program:
windirstat.jpg


http://lifehacker.com/219058/geek-to-live--visualize-your-hard-drive-usage

This will visually show you what is taking up all the space.

Note: perhaps you have multiple installations of windows, and could free up all the space by deleting the old/unused leftover copies from earlier versions? Use the visualizer to see where the really big folders are hidden.

Here's a direct link to the program's website; the link above is to a lifehacker article explaining the program:
http://windirstat.info/
 
230 GB drive is the only partition.

looking at windirstat.info, Oddly enough it is now loking fine but I have no idea how.😕

Thank you guy for everything
 
dvtrv said:
230 GB drive is the only partition.

looking at windirstat.info, Oddly enough it is now loking fine but I have no idea how.😕

Thank you guy for everything
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Sounds like either you have (had) a virus, or were looking at some information incorrectly.

Where were/are you looking at this information? Are the restore points still gone?
 
Yes.
When I first brought this up I had no memory left and had lost 132GB.
The following day it was back, then I discovered I had lost most of it again and hence why I continued to work with you guys todiscover why, then suddenly I got it all back?

How I don't know
 
Hmm, maybe try the free (non-pro) version of this program with a funny name (crap cleaner):
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

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If you have a bunch of leftover files clogging up your hard drive, this can get rid of them. Especially for things like old web browsing junk that just accumulates over time.
 
I use ccleaner anyway thank you.

As stated before, I recently reinstalled Vista Home premium.

I'm done here with this thread and thank you to everyone.😎
 
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