Journal #8554 by DiscoStu

Penguinboy

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 05:35:24 UTC Comment #62672

Are you sure you're not just mistaken and you didn't actually have that much space available? Otherwise, a program like SpaceMonger will give you a good visual representation of what's taking up a lot of space on your drive.

rufee

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 05:38:46 UTC Comment #62677

Corrupt file system ? I have a drive in a server which has lost 150gb due to corruption, basically an empty folder that takes up 150gigs.

Try SpaceSniffer or TreeSize to see whats on the drive.

DiscoStu

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 07:20:51 UTC Comment #62678

I'm quite sure I had somewhere around 150GB free. I don't remember the exact number but I do remember reaching some 110 a bit earlier a few months ago when I uninstalled a number of games I wasn't playing. So even assuming 110GB free, it's still 70GB somehow unaccounted for.

I guess I'll look into those...

Striker

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 07:36:13 UTC Comment #62674

Check your hard drive's health with HD Tune.
For visualizing disk space taken by folders I recommend SpaceSniffer. It's fast, small and doesn't require installation.

DiscoStu

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 07:45:32 UTC Comment #62679

I just tried SpaceSniffer. It shows 105GB of "unaccessible space". Kind of the part I'm missing, so I wonder if the hard drive is having a problem.

Stojke

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 08:22:02 UTC Comment #62682

Just test the hard drive.
Some times you forget to allocate it, or as rfe said it gets corrupted.

Striker

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 11:20:23 UTC Comment #62675

Also, be careful. The internet has just been hit by some new ransomware and nobody really knows where it comes from and who are the authors.
It encrypts your files with RSA 2048, which basically means you're fucked if you have important files and don't get the decryption key, or have a quantum computer.

Ghost129er

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 13:18:12 UTC Comment #62683

...
Disconnects PC from the Internet

DiscoStu

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 20:33:09 UTC Comment #62680

I assume something like that would give me some sort of message telling me that, otherwise it wouldn't be called "ransomware". And I haven't had any such messages. Besides, it's supposed to be free space, and targeting free space is probably not as lucrative. Fortunately I have my important files backed up in a network drive. I'm still inclined towards hard drive corruption/failure.

Captain Terror

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-25 23:29:02 UTC Comment #62673

SKYNET is taking over!

TBH I've never had a problem like this, but it sounds scary. I would clone the drive to an external, format your HDD, and restore with the clone image.

Maybe also start shopping for HDDs just in case =)

Striker

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-26 02:32:32 UTC Comment #62676

Haven't you used HD Tune in the mean time? You're just making us curious :P.

DiscoStu

Commented 9 years ago2015-05-26 19:48:55 UTC Comment #62681

I did and it displays all sectors as OK, no sectors are marked as damaged. So it seems not to be a hardware problem.

[edit] And then I thought of running Spacesniffer with administrator rights. I no longer have 105GB of "unaccessible space", and now I have 109GB of System Volume Information. So system restore points suddenly decided to take up 100GB. The setting was to allow a max disk usage of 25% of its total capacity, I brought it down to 12% and now my free space is at 96GB. I'd say it's a bit better.

Journal #8554

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