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Answer» OK, here's what it says. Do you use any type of automatic backup?tekkite07: Please do the following, since we're not going to get ENOUGH information from you any other way to be able to help: 1) Download the following tool from Microsoft's website: DIRUSE: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927229 Scroll to the middle of the page and download the link called "Directory Disk Usage (DIRUSE)". 2) Install DIRUSE. Yes, I know this is a Windows 2000 Resource Kit tool, but it DOES work with Vista. 3) Click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories. 4) Right-click Command Prompt, then left-click Run As Administrator. Click "Allow" when User Account Control nags you. 5) On the black screen, type in the following EXACTLY as you see it, pressing Enter after each line: C: cd\ cd "C:\Program Files\Resource Kit" diruse /s /m /q:100 /l /* d:\ >C:\DIRUSEREPORT.txt You WILL get a blinking cursor for a short period of time. Wait for the C:\Program Files\Resource Kit prompt to come back. Once it's done... 6) Type in the following EXACTLY as you see it, pressing Enter after each line: dir d:\ >C:\DIRREPORT.txt 7) Attach both the C:\DIRUSEREPORT.txt and the C:\DIRREPORT.txt to your reply. Don't post the contents of both of these--just attach them. Otherwise, it'll be a HUGE wall-o-text, and our short attention spans here can't handle it very well. In case you're wondering what those two commands do: The DIRUSE command and parameters above creates a list of files on your D drive that are larger than 100 MB, and posts the total space CONSUMPTION of those files in the end. The DIR command simply posts a tree of directories, but ALSO posts how much free space is left on your D partition.Well, I have solved the problem. Thanks for all the input!May we know how?I called a Dell tech support person, and they deleted the excess files up until 6/09. That may be so, but your main problem (still unanswered) is, how did those files end up on drive D, what kind of files were those, and what about the future issues?I asked the tech person one of those questions. He said that in a few months, I have merely to repeat the action that he did, to delete the excess files. I realized that I chose D drive, when I set automatic back up of files to start running on a daily basis. I think that I have to choose a way to back these files up on a CD or external hard drive, instead of having the computer programmed to do it every day, into the D drive, as I did. If you answered my questions from yesterday (post #11): Quote Do you use any type of automatic backup?you would have saved yourself, and us a lot of time.Quote from: tekkite07 on July 07, 2009, 11:57:28 PM Yes, I was using automatic backup, and I am assuming that system restore was already set to D. I didn't know that I had to choose which drive. I thought I had answered those questions, in above quote. I appreciate all the time taken. |
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