I’ve been having problems lately with my primary hard drive filling up. Every once in a while Windows will tell me that I am running out of space on drive C: with only 500mb! After I cough up my tongue I run CCleaner and do a quick WinDirStat report to see my big offenders. Nothing glaring ever shows up in the report and I end up just deleting a bunch of old programs and other piddly files that probably only total to 1gb. But Windows shuts up and I move on.
The last time this happened I took my World of Warcraft directory and manually (and painfully) moved it over to another drive. This should have freed up 8gb. It didn’t.
Today I started digging. Windows correctly sees my drive size as 69.2GB, and reports that I only have 3.15GB free. That must mean that ~65GB are in use. However, JDiskReport (and WinDirStat) is showing that only 24gb are in use.
I ran chkdsk to get a raw view of the drive (and to see if there are any errors) and everything came out clean. It reports that I have 15gb free!
Defrag is scheduled to run weekly and windows tells me that it doesn’t need a defrag. At this point I’m wondering whether the drive is faulty or do I just need to reformat this drive… (I’d rather not do this, of course)
Any ideas? I’m out of rope at this point.