80gb Hard Drive Full Over Night!

[Triadcool]

I have a 80gb harddrive and I was only using 30gbs of it. Then I started downloading stuff off of suprnova over night that tottaled out to be 2 gb of disk space and I let it download over night. When I woke up it said my harddrive was full. I only had 535mb of disk space left. How could this be. I ran check disk and it didnt find any errors, does anybody have any idea?

[ultimatejester]

:blink: :blink: Have you tried cleaning your temporary files?

[3rd gen noob]

possibly your bitt client found errors in the downloads and re-allocated numerous times...

do you have lots of copies of your downloads?

[Broken]

ah, drive space disappears so fast. :D

no idea unles you downloaded more than you thought.

[abu_has_the_power]

had that prob with my old comp. u should try restarting. then check ur file structure with norton systemworks. i just restarted, and everything went back to normal. ur comp can do weird things when ur not in front of it

[Triadcool]

Ive cleaned my temp internet folders. I only have 1 copy of the file,and I know I didnt download 40gb of stuff while I was sleeping. Any other ideas?

[sparsely]

Something's takin up all the space...use an app like SequoiaView or something to get a visual representation of file sizes on your
hard drive.
Or you could just do a search (Windows Key + F), All files & Folders, More Advanced Options, What size is it >
Specify Size > Search for files larger than 1GB (1048576 KB). It should be obvious when the search is done which large files are unwanted,
or if it doesn't find anything, try lowering the search filesize a bit.

[james_bond_rulez]

maybe you downloaded the move "The Ring"

yeah.... that might be it :lol:

be careful your LCD screen might overflow with plasma liquid next!!! :blink:

[Triadcool]

What are some other programs I can use to see what is taking up so much space. And how do I clear my pagefile.

[Triadcool]

Any Ideas

[pol]

dont answer the phone either :P :D

[Triadcool]

http://www.uploadit.org/files/191003-untitled.JPG

[DWk]

formaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...its time for a formaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat


DWk

[pol]

those 'occupied space' sizes dont add up to 70gig :blink:

[Triadcool]

Thats what I am trying to tell you.

[DWk]

Originally posted by DWk@19 October 2003 - 00:08
formaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...its time for a formaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat


DWk
.read?.

[muchspl2]

is that the answer to everthing, just give up and format
thats bad advice to give


I would try window washer, maybe you got a shitload of temp files
can't hurt

[zapjb]

Like Sparsely said SequoiaView is an excellent program in this case. And it's freeware AFAIR.

[Triadcool]

I just posted a pic of my problem does anybody have any idea what I can do.

[zapjb]

Where?

[Triadcool]

http://www.uploadit.org/files/191003-untitled.JPG

On the other page.

[zapjb]

Sorry confused. But just like pol said, that doesn't add up to 70GB.

Same readings in My Computer?

[Triadcool]

yea

[Marius24]

also that weather thing in the corner is spyware... i think :huh:

[Johnny_B]

I suggest you defrag your hard drive.

[Triadcool]

Thanks guy,this is realy frustrating so I am just going to reformat my computer. I guess ill talk to you guys when I get done. PEACE!

[Triadcool]

O and before I go. I was talking to the guy that built my computer and he was talking about when you reformat your hard drive it just turns the space on your hard drive to 1 or 0, so it can be rewritten over the used space but it doesnt delete the stuff on the hard drive. He said the software he has would totally clear everything from ever being recovered again. Do you guys know a program that would do that?

[muchspl2]

I can't belive you would just give up :blink:

but ther is a great program to wipe the free space called bestcrypt
http://www.jetico.com/

[Triadcool]

Well I kinda needed to reformat anyways.

[zapjb]

People reformat way too often. Once a yr is OK. ;)

[hackattack142]

not knowing what kind of hard drive you have, you could just use a tool kit like the one Western Digital offers that can write zeros to the hard drive overwriting everything that was on there perminantly and also have other tools to test the hard drive and repair errors. This specific package is the DLG Diagnostic tools that can be downloaded under the diagnostics section from the link below.

http://support.wdc.com/download/#windlg

[exeus]

checkdisk scandisk

[sparsely]

I kept wanting to suggest that...but he says in the initial post that he did it already...
but yeah..
checkdisk /f

[Triadcool]

Thanks for all your help guys. I went ahead and reformated,and its all fixed. Thanks.

[mogadishu]

torrent files show that they are taking up the amount it would when the file is finished. i.e if ur dl a 700mb dvd rip, even if u dl only 1mb it still shows up as 700. Perhaps windows picks up on that in some instances, but in others it thinks the files are actually full.

[zapjb]

Good catch mogadishu! Bet that's it. People runaround here though & reformat at the drop of a hat. :lol:

[Triadcool]

Well I know that wasn't the problem because I deleted the files that I downloaded off of suprnova before I formated and the problem was still there.



But now its not a porblem because I reformated anyways.

[Nightwolf]

I know it's too late now, but looking at your picture I wish you would have expanded the Folder Name column. One entry says 'wasted space' and there's something else after it that you can't read. That might have provided a valuable clue to your problem. I suspect the drive was not formatted correctly in the first place. Partition Magic probably could have fixed it. Oh well, I guess we'll never know.

[DWk]

Originally posted by mogadishu@19 October 2003 - 08:19
torrent files show that they are taking up the amount it would when the file is finished. i.e if ur dl a 700mb dvd rip, even if u dl only 1mb it still shows up as 700. Perhaps windows picks up on that in some instances, but in others it thinks the files are actually full.
at least using burst rc5...this problem is fixed...

DWk

[muchspl2]

what does burst have to do with anything?
bittorrent allocates the file before you start the download, just how it works, nothing to do with burst

[MadDog-2000]

I know why it suddenly took up so much space on your HD and the problem is right in front of you!

http://www.uploadit.org/files/191003-untitled.JPG

Look at the center in the bottom of your screenshot where it says Cluster Size! You chose to format your drive with an insane cluster size of 4 MB! The higher the cluster size of the file system is, the higher is the amount of slack space on your HD!

This means if you have a file that is only 350 bytes in size, the file system will use the smallest cluster count, in your case 4 MB (4,096 KB) to save the file to the disk. The other space that is not taken up by the file is called slack space. So, if you save 4 small files (let's just say around 100 - 200 KB) it will actually take up 4 x 4 MB = 16 MB on your disk.

So, the only solution to fix this problem is to format the drive with a smaller cluster size. NTFS offers you the choice to format your clustters in multiple sizes, ranging from 4 KB to 4,096 KB. Best thing to do is format in the smallest possible cluster size or simply choose Default cluster size next time!

[Triadcool]

WOW Good catch maddog. Is there anyway to reduce the cluster size without reformating?

[DWk]

Originally posted by muchspl2@20 October 2003 - 00:10
what does burst have to do with anything?
bittorrent allocates the file before you start the download, just how it works, nothing to do with burst
bittorrent is just a protocol....if u use latest BT version, it doesn include a neat downloader....but if you use BURST you dont have 700 megs when you start the torrent....but you have 0megs...and the file size grows as you download more...

this was an issue with BT before...its fixed in the latest version of it.... and burst was just an example of how to manage the torrent...

DWk

[Nightwolf]

Originally posted by Triadcool@19 October 2003 - 20:44
WOW Good catch maddog. Is there anyway to reduce the cluster size without reformating?
Partition Magic

[ooshna]

the only way that his clustersize could have eaten up so much space is if he had hundreds of thousands of tiny files i mean such a huge emount its very unlikely he would have them unless he archives news forums on his computer

[Russo]

BitTorrent allocates the space for your downloads before it downloads the files. I started to download Max Payne 2 from BitTorrent and it was going so slow (1kbs) so i stopped the download at 1% complete.

Then i looked at the folder it was downloading to and it said it was 1.5GB. thats the total size of both CDs for MP2.

When i deleted the MP2 folder i recovered my space.

[kurtsl0an]

Originally posted by Triadcool@19 October 2003 - 00:07
http://www.uploadit.org/files/191003-untitled.JPG
i'm not familiar w/the prog ur using, but if u add up the "wasted space" column, it adds up 2 about 79 gig. y is the "wasted space" column so much more than the "occupied size" column? if u right click one of those folders in exploring (program files is a HUGE difference) and go 2 properties, how big does it say the directory is?

[Hellie]

You´re to late kurtsl0an he allready formatted the disk :D

[zapjb]

Yup he gave up.

[MUSLEMAN]

to be honest i hacked him last night and downloaded my shared folder on to his hard drive, that way i could share via him and not get cought by the riaa http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/k/outtahere.gif

[kurtsl0an]

Originally posted by Hellie@20 October 2003 - 12:49
You´re to late kurtsl0an he allready formatted the disk :D
umm, guess i'll blame the fact that it was 5 a.m. when i read this - and i hadn't slept yet. somehow i missed the middle 2 pages????

sorry - :huh:

[DWk]

lol kurt its ok...

i sometimes start talkin non-sense at 5 am :D

DWk

[joke]

I had some similar experience which happened while capturing DV. The hard disk was used up by the temp files and the menory did not release even the file was deleted. The only way was to reform the disk. I deleted the partitions and rebuilt them (Low level format)

Poor.....

[Triadcool]

Thanks joke. Thats exactly what I did and your the only one that seems to support what I did. :P