I have a strange problem happening on my hard drive. This morning I was sitting at the PC hacking away at something, and I looked up at the Rainmeter C drive used space meter on the desktop and noticed that it had gone up a GB. That was not unusual as it fluctuates with system restores some. But, as the next 20-30 minutes went by, the used space went up by 12 GB. Once it had risen 5-6 GB, I started trying to determine what was happening. I opened the program Everything to see if there were any new large files but couldn't find any new ones.
I tried two system restore points, but neither worked. The process completed for each, but a message on the restore menu said the restore didn't work because of an illegal shutdown. The only thing I can think of that could have something to do with this would be an installation and removal I performed yesterday of Bumptop, an active desktop utility that I had been wanting to get a look at for awhile. The program wouldn't work, so I removed it using Comodo Programs Manager.
The restarts seem to have stopped the ever decreasing space on the drive, but I don't know what to do. I'd like to get that 12 GB back. Any tips or advice would be better than what I've got, so thanks...
Sorry, this is in XP SP3
UPDATE/EDIT: Ran system restore in Safe Mode, and it worked fine. It had to be the longest system restore I've ever performed, but when the reboot was complete, the used space on the hard drive had gone up some again. I don't think it's in runaway mode, right now, but the restore didn't get rid of the data that has been added. For the record this is a 250 GB (232 GB usable) HD. The used space has gone frrom 89 to 103 GB. The majority of this happened in about 20 minutes as I mentioned...
I tried two system restore points, but neither worked. The process completed for each, but a message on the restore menu said the restore didn't work because of an illegal shutdown. The only thing I can think of that could have something to do with this would be an installation and removal I performed yesterday of Bumptop, an active desktop utility that I had been wanting to get a look at for awhile. The program wouldn't work, so I removed it using Comodo Programs Manager.
The restarts seem to have stopped the ever decreasing space on the drive, but I don't know what to do. I'd like to get that 12 GB back. Any tips or advice would be better than what I've got, so thanks...
Sorry, this is in XP SP3
UPDATE/EDIT: Ran system restore in Safe Mode, and it worked fine. It had to be the longest system restore I've ever performed, but when the reboot was complete, the used space on the hard drive had gone up some again. I don't think it's in runaway mode, right now, but the restore didn't get rid of the data that has been added. For the record this is a 250 GB (232 GB usable) HD. The used space has gone frrom 89 to 103 GB. The majority of this happened in about 20 minutes as I mentioned...