Free space disappearing windows 7

[Guest]

I have a question.

 

[Guest]

I have Windows 7 Professional x64 bit version. At the beginning when I turn on my computer, I have about 140gb of free space. After 4 hours, I get a warning message saying that I have no disk space available. Can someone tell me whats going on here? I never had this problem before.

 

[gtvr]

Have you done a virus/spyware scan?

How about a checkdisk (or whatever the Win 7 equivalent is).

If you reboot, do you get the space back?

 

[willrot]

I am having the same problem. I can watch my free space disappear before my eyes. No files seem to be growing (did directory analysis). When i reboot, the disk space is back, but immediately starts disappearing again.

I fixed this once by doing a minimal boot and slowly adding back the start-up apps/services until it started happening again, trying to find the culprit. But i eventually added all my start-up items back, and it stopped happening. So, i fixed it without knowing what the problem was, or really changing anything.

Well, it just started happening again. I haven't found any solutions on the internet, yet.

 

[willrot]

Did a virus scan the first time, and doing one now. Nothing showed up the first time.

 

[allanonmage]

use space monger (free version) to find out whats eating up your space. Then google that file and see what it's problem is. On a vista machine I worked on, it was some built in backup thing that was eating up space.

 

[willrot]

thanks. that's what i did, and found that pc tools had a log file with no space limit. a new version of the program now works.