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HELP HARD DRIVE LOOSING SPACE ON A DAYILY BASIS

Jun 26, 2007 3:18AM PDT

ok pls follow with me i bought a new computer about 4 months ago specs are amd dual core 3800 225gb hd and i upgraded to 2 gb ram.
after the fist month i noticed my hard drive getting smaller. by now i have about 50 gb unacounted for. i read alot on this and figured it was my system restore shadow copies deleted those. some help but still missing alot. i resized the alotted space for system restore to 20gb it wasusing 30.8. it saved me some because i had about 85gb missing. now its at 50. i downloaded tree size free. it says im 0only using 34.5gb of my hard drive. but my computer says im using 80. i have cleaned all temp files and such using disk clean up. at this point im verry confused where is all my memory going? and it looses about a gig a day. any help will be much apreciated. sorry i made this so long but i wanted to let everyone know where im at to save time on post telling me to do things i have already done.

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Jun 26, 2007 4:11AM PDT

just some more system info i have vista 32 bit home premium its a levono 3000j series amd athelon 64 x2 dual core 3800 radion x700
and i have checked for viruses i have norton antivirus and i checked windows defender and for malicious malware in the microsoft home page.
so im pretty sure its not a virus. pls help im desperate my computer did not come with a reboot disk.

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Ah...Vista...
Jun 26, 2007 4:32AM PDT
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thx
Jun 27, 2007 3:15AM PDT

wow yup that was it thx alot i have been scratching my head for over a month this did the trick thx again i was about to restore my whole system thinking something was totally wrong. saved me alot of time and money.