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OK, so I just bought a 120 GB Seagate hard drive and installed it on my Windows machine. This was about two weeks ago. I copied the volume I had (a 40 GB Maxtor from way back) using Norton Ghost, and just installed the new drive as C:. Pretty easy.
Just so you also know, I'm running XP SP2 on this machine; it's an old Dell from 2001, so it has a P3 processor and 512 mb, not that that should matter.
I also have Sysmetrix installed, which is a program that maintains a graphio display of system information on the desk top. So, everyday, I'm watching while the available room on my new hard drive disappears. I'm not talking about after I install a program or load up some pictures or music. I'm talking while I'm sitting there doing NOTHING. Drip drip drip: 96.3 GB available, 96.1, 96.0, 95.4, 95.2. Bleeding away hard drive space. What in the name of fuck is this now? I ran Norton Virus Scan and lost a whole fucking gigabyte in the process!
Now, I also have Window Washer, which bleaches the temp files daily, and I have defragmented the volume, and I run scan disk daily, and it bleeds, bleeds, bleeds: 94.2, 94.0, 93.6...
This is fucking ridiculous. What is getting written onto the hard drive to take up this much space? How can I check what is being put on that drive? Any ideas?
(PS: I also have a Linux machine that runs great, and that I built myself, but I've done a lot of work on this old Dell and I'd like it to still work properly. Is it just a question of having to partition such a large volume?)
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