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Windows Server 2003 suddenly "lost" 18G space on hard drive

Jan 28, 2005 7:09AM PST

I have a 2003 Small Business Server. Just last week I had 37G total, 19G free. A few days ago, I had 403 M free. When I check the disk usage total it shows the builtin/administrators account using 35G, but I can't figure out what processes could be using it. The shadow copy service had been running, and that was using 3G, once I disabled it I got it back, but the next day my storage was used up again. Any ideas?

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Oh Really!!!
Feb 2, 2005 6:01PM PST

Wow is my first reaction. My second is WOW again! I don't think I have ever ran across that but having said that, my guess is a virus can be the cause. You did not mention what type of files are taking up your disk space? Also, are you able to remove them? I would check the "Services" file under Administrative Tools very closely and determine any suspicious entries. It took half a day to help fix a friends laptop that was saturated with trojans, spyware, uname it and I found several entries in the Services file. These hackers set the recovery of their programs to 4977 times to restart!!!

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ok....thats iodd
Feb 3, 2005 9:12PM PST

Exactly what folder is the data being held in?

It does sound like an infection, since that account is the only account that a quota can't be used to keep in check.
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BTW Shadow Copy = Good. Don't turn it off. Leverage its capabilities.

Just my opinion.