Windows Drive(C:) shows Low disk space error while its not actually

AddRAM · 03 Apr 2012

You could try a system restore back a week or so.

thomas15v · 03 Apr 2012

Its ma by thumb to ask.

how many space you have reserved for pagefile? (Virtual RAM memory)
Is there an antivirus installed (its be possible that a virus has copied all your folders again and again, and hided him with secured windows files)
have you try to download a large file with a torrent client (This problem happen when your client is set pre-allocate disk space on)

dhru2010 · 03 Apr 2012

@thomas15v I am using torrent and may be it happened because of it...so how can I check it and solve it?

thomas15v · 03 Apr 2012

Remove unfinished downloads
untick

dhru2010 · 03 Apr 2012

thomas15v said:

Remove unfinished downloads
untick

I already have removed unfinished download it means there were no unfinished download in my torrent before you indicate and also option you already show is already untick. Let me know if still another way if you have.

Thanks

thomas15v · 03 Apr 2012

Untick this and give us a screen shot of your harddisk.
srr it is in dutch.

secured operating system files
hided files and folders

Duzzy · 03 Apr 2012

Don't know if it will help but you could install WinDirStat and see if anything stands out.

dhru2010 · 03 Apr 2012

@thomas15v ok here is the screenshot...sorry if I've selected wrong options because I don't understand dutch.

thomas15v · 03 Apr 2012

untick hide secured operating system files and tick show hided folder. And give me a screen of that. I think that a virus has copied your files and hided them on this way.

normaly windows wil give a message if you untick this, press yes.

gladson1976 · 03 Apr 2012

you can try WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics as Duzzy suggested or you can use TreeSize Free - Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs to find out which folder is using how much space.