First of all Hello Hardware section, haven't posted outside of the "other" in ages.
My specs are:
e6400 @3200, stable oc
2gb corsair ram ddr2 800 stock
8800gts 640
rosewill 600w
1hdd wd 250gb 16mb sata (4partitions, 1 for os, 1 for apps, 1 for games, 1 for storage)
vista x32
Have been using this pc for a year and a half, about 8 months with vista and never had any problems. All of the sudden yesterday I get an vista message that I have about 56mb left on C drive (was 20gb partition). Pc slowed down and hanged. I have backup my data and installed clean vista, formatted all 4 partitions, resized C drive to 25gb.
After clean restore I get the same deal, vista seems to eat the c drive by itself. After install i had about 13gb free, few minutes later and i got 10gb free. While i understand that vista might use a lot of hdd for system restore etc., this has never happen before. If i try to download something from the web the download will hang at about 98-99% and will not complete, custom virus scan with eset is slow and hangs if i attempt to stop it. To recover from all this i have to pull the plug.
Could this be a hdd failure in progress? My pc is regularly scanned with latest "trojan remover" and eset nod32. And again, this literally happened for no apparent reason. What should I do?
My specs are:
e6400 @3200, stable oc
2gb corsair ram ddr2 800 stock
8800gts 640
rosewill 600w
1hdd wd 250gb 16mb sata (4partitions, 1 for os, 1 for apps, 1 for games, 1 for storage)
vista x32
Have been using this pc for a year and a half, about 8 months with vista and never had any problems. All of the sudden yesterday I get an vista message that I have about 56mb left on C drive (was 20gb partition). Pc slowed down and hanged. I have backup my data and installed clean vista, formatted all 4 partitions, resized C drive to 25gb.
After clean restore I get the same deal, vista seems to eat the c drive by itself. After install i had about 13gb free, few minutes later and i got 10gb free. While i understand that vista might use a lot of hdd for system restore etc., this has never happen before. If i try to download something from the web the download will hang at about 98-99% and will not complete, custom virus scan with eset is slow and hangs if i attempt to stop it. To recover from all this i have to pull the plug.
Could this be a hdd failure in progress? My pc is regularly scanned with latest "trojan remover" and eset nod32. And again, this literally happened for no apparent reason. What should I do?