[DracetLopez]

Hi I've been using computers for about 4 years now and I've come across a slight or major problem. It seems that my computer is running out of hard drive space. I know putting stuff on the hard drive takes up space. The thing is I had about 17gb of free space and haven't added anything. Now that space has been slowly feeling up with something and I can't figure out what. Does anybody know what could be going on. I'm down to 977mb nows T_T

[JohnWill]

Use something like WinDirStat to see where all the space is going, that's a first step.

[DracetLopez]

alright i've downloaded and ran WinDirStat. I clicked the option to show unknown and free space on the tree map. I have a huge yellow area now that is unknown and about 58.5 gb large. I think we found it. whatever it is. What should I do now?

[DracetLopez]

Just an update in case anyone is wondering I found that I may have multiple save files of backup memory. I came across it when I was trying to free up some more space so I don't run out yet. Most of my games are gone and off it now. From Oblivion to FFVII(old school I know :P) When I looked to see what files weren't being defragmented I came across quite a few that read something like this
fragments file size file name
1,837 36MB \RRUbackups\C\Merge\Data459

there's a whole lot of them and the ending numbers are all different. the size and fragments change of course. But do you think this might be what is taking up most of my space. The rest least as size 48MB but the rest is all the same except the numbers on the end and the fragments.
Could this be it?

[DracetLopez]

oh yeah when I was trying to free up space I googled all of the things I was deleting to make sure they were not part of the system files or important. If I didn't find anything I left it as is.

[AcidBurnz95]

Are you on a Thinkpad?

If so it looks like these are back up files from a Rapid Restore program.

[DracetLopez]

yeah I am. Rapid restore sounds a little bad unless it's from hibernating. do ya know if I'll be able to get rid of these and whether or not I should?

[DracetLopez]

Well just as an update it was the backup. Apparently it was scheduled to do it every week. I turned that off and then looked at my backup files. I found that there is where 35gb of my data was sitting at. So I deleted all of them except the base backup. Then I backed it all up once and left it unscheduled. Thanks for the help everybody ^_^ I think the problem has been solved!!!!