Sudden disk space??

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I have had around 1GB free on my primary WinXP hard disk for some
months now and am soon transitioning to a larger hard disk. But
suddenly just now I got a strange message that my disk space problem
was cleaned up and I have 3.2GB free!! I didn't erase a lot of files
and can't on inspection see any major changes. Any thoughts on what
may have caused this and what I might be able to do to check to ensure
that all is okay? Thanks. --Dilip
 
barmanwrote:
I have had around 1GB free on my primary WinXP hard disk for some
months now and am soon transitioning to a larger hard disk. But
suddenly just now I got a strange message that my disk space problem
was cleaned up and I have 3.2GB free!! I didn't erase a lot of files
and can't on inspection see any major changes. Any thoughts on what
may have caused this and what I might be able to do to check to
ensure that all is okay? Thanks. --Dilip
Click to expand...

I'd like you to expand on this 'strange message' a bit more. What was it
and how did you receive it?

Start button --> RUN --> type in:

EVENTVWR

--> Click OK.

Look through the Application and System logs at about the day/time you got
the message for any "Application Popups" and post the exact message of the
text if possible.
 
Thanks for such a useful response. I didn't know about this message
log viewer. The application messages all looked routine, but I did
find this disk system message at 10:31p, essentially repeated at
11:56p:

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk5\D during a paging
operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

As I look back, I see that warning several times earlier in the
day ... and I keep seeing it over the past days as I scroll down. I
did a little bit of research - is this an early sign that there is a
potential hard disk crash on this primary hard disk impending?? I am
about to start a system backup using Retrospect 6.5.

Dilip
 
It seems like this event id 51 started showing up on January 12th ...

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 1/12/2008
Time: 1:34:34 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DILIP-THINKPAD
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk5\D during a paging
operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 04 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..€
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 8e 00 bc 00 00 00 00 .Ž.¼....
0028: cd 31 8c 00 00 00 00 00 Í1Œ.....
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 84 02 00 00 00 @..„....
0040: 00 20 0a 12 80 01 20 40 . ..€. @
0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 a0 87 87 a8 4f f6 87 . ‡‡¨Oö‡
0058: 00 00 00 00 08 cc aa 88 .....̪ˆ
0060: 00 00 00 00 47 00 5e 00 ....G.^.
0068: 2a 00 00 5e 00 47 00 00 *..^.G..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0a p.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 04 02 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
 
I would look for an explanation in the way you are backing up and
restoring using Retrospect 6.5.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Thanks. I don't think Retrospect has anything to do with it; I hadn't
backed up with it (I do constant file-based backup using Memeo) for
some days, and haven't restored to the primary disk.

Dilip
 
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