Hard drive space becomes smaller and smaller

Romania
June 18, 2010 11:10am CST
Hi! i have a Fujitsu Siemens notebook with 280 GB. 34 GB are in C: Drive. anyway, i got the computer 3 years ago and for several weeks now i noticed that the space on C becomes smaller. i have 600 MB now and i don't have nothing stored on C, like pictures or other multimedia files... if i turn on the computer three times a day, i lose about 6 MB or even more without saving anything. my computer has the restore option disabled, so it doesn't perform a restore from time to time, i disabled also the updates, even though it is not recommended and i still lose space. i repeat, i don't have any application that could "eat" resources from the computer. i guess the problem is related to how many times i turn on the computer. this should not happen...
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4 responses
jamed28
@jamed28 (1903)
• Philippines
19 Jun 10
I think it is not the hard drive that is becoming smaller and smaller. It is your data that is becoming bigger and bigger. The size of drives now a days are even more bigger that five years ago.
karandemb
@karandemb (19)
• India
19 Jun 10
You wrong jamed28 hard drive are becoming smaller because compression of data is great.Due to development in field of rays quality which main reason of decrease of hard-drive size. Data will keep getting small or big it depends on use of it.Previously hard drive was coming for transfer of mb size only..now days normal size transfer is GB.It easily to say more development of field of data compression more hard drive will be small.
BlueGoblin
@BlueGoblin (1829)
• United States
18 Jun 10
I had a problem with my anti-Virus software because it sucked all my resources. The software was suppose to protect my computer but actually did the opposite. The program updated constantly and slowed my computer down big time.
monicaei
@monicaei (55)
• Romania
19 Jun 10
Yes, you're right. the anti-virus software is the only one that updates by itself. even if I stopped all the automatic updates, even though it's not recommended, the anti-virus gets updated everyday. and it is installed in C: Drive logically... I don't understand, if the C: Drive is supposed to host Windows and the other programs that consume resources, why don't the technicians make it larger? i was wondering what will happen if my C: Drive reaches 100 Mb..80 Gb...50 GB and so on...
alexpaulrox
@alexpaulrox (297)
• India
18 Jun 10
Hi monicaei I think you have a virus in ur pc. Try installing avast and update it and scan. If that doesn't work try installing ccleaner and scan using it and delete the unwanted files. is C the partition in which the OS is installed?
monicaei
@monicaei (55)
• Romania
18 Jun 10
yes, the XP is installed in C. you know, i thought of installing CCleaner.. i know it removes the unwanted programs and the files that have not been used in ages. i will try it. thanks. i don't have a virus. or at least i hope so. :)
karandemb
@karandemb (19)
• India
19 Jun 10
@monicaei:CCleaner also not remove all non used files,but it will increase the size little.Main increase of data is due to increase of backup file of installation of software.Windows XP create backup of all software so it can be repair anytime.Most common backup file is store by system restore which covered lots of space.If you want to clean all data with system restore files to free space in 'c:' drive use Tuneup Utilities is best tool for clean the 'c:' drive.But remember one thing you can't system restore after remove those files.