My hard drive is getting full... less than 8% remaining.... this is causing blue screens at a frequent rate..... 3 this morning already. 

Yet, looking at the drive..... the applications and data bases are nowhere close to being that large. 

I have moved pictures and music to D drive and gained a few GB by doing that.  What is causing the drive to fill up so quickly and is there a way to get rid of the garbage to lower the used space? 

I'm running malware bytes thinking I may have something in the drive..... so far I've not been able to complete a scan.... it freezes (MWB)  and then a BSOD pops up on me after 20 minutes or so later.... 

This just started happening in the past 3 days, but the drive has been getting near full for some time...... similar situation on a 10G really old lappy. Tried to clean up the wasted space by removing programs back to the bare essentials I need, and still the drive is full on the lappy.....

Any ideas are appreciated. 


BTW: neither are my DAW's.  AND.... in the BSOD, it does mention hard drive space.

paging file full and not getting refreshed maybe? 

what exactly does the error in BSOD say?  (you said it mentiones hard drive space, but what is the exact message?).

have you done a full checkdisk (the type to be scheduled on next bootup)?

This is your system drive yes?

What about Temporary Internet files? They can consume VAST amounts of space if not cleared out regularly

Start by emptying your recycle bin, otherwise anything on there (which you've deleted) is still actually on your hard drive.

My first guess is that your paging file size is "adaptive" rather than static.

The paging files appear empty when you look at them in Explorer but they fill up with stuff when working... if they are set up to adapt in size and the extra area isn't available when it needs it... stuff can happen.

That's a first guess.

I still like to set the minimum and maximum at the same thing so that the page file area remains reserved and safe.

best regards,
mike

 Just this morning I cleared the cache in temporary internet files on a computer at work. It had consumed a large portion of the drive. I used an outboard erase program that basically shreds all the files.

 Maybe this is the problem but maybe not.

Have you got CCleaner Herb? That will root out tons of rubbish for you. Ran it this morning myself and it deleted 2,537MB of junk.

+1 on CCleaner. Free too! ATF Cleaner is free and easy to use too and faster (select all).

J

Pageing file size of min and max being the same helps. You be surprised how much Microsoft OS's store everything on your computer whether you wanted it or not. You have to clean it all out all the time. I delete any files by a browser added or cookies everytime I close out any browser. It it in the menu. All those temp files stay on if you do not clean out your computer. (and any computer program added to your computer over time). All I have is XP but there it is C:\ drive -> Documents and Settings -> (user name - in which case mine when bought was already named - Owner) -> Local Settings -> Temp folder. Not where you think it would be in Windows/Temp anymore but still there is stuff there also that the OS may add as to log files or files that may build up there also. Each file takes space and although may not look that big, all add up according to disk drive size of the sector size used. I just cleaned mine out again as about any program you use may add something there.

I opened and ran in safe mode to run security essentials and malware bytes.... both ran perfectly and I also ran my registry cleaner..... if found a fixed a few problems.

I deleted some of the files in the recycling bin that I believe to be duplicates. I need to confirm that I have and need the files copied to my D drive, then I can delete more or all of them.  

I ran the my computer and it now shows my C drive as "green" as opposed to red..... I think it goes red at 10% remaining. So I will look into the temporary folders and clear them and dig deeper into some of the other aspects ....and look at CCleaner to free up more drive space from the unneeded garbage. 

Thanks for the suggestions and ideas...


Oh yeah... rebooted back to normal mode and so far so good. 

 Herb,

 You can right click on  any file in your programs folder  and go to properties to see how large the file is. This will indicate which folders are using the most memory.