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Losing hard drive space after reboot
Hello. Recently I've been losing large amounts of hard drive space on my Asus laptop upon reboot. It is running Windows 7 Home 64bit. The hard drive is not partioned. It is the OEM hard drive and is about two years old.
For example last night I had about 21 GB free (out of total C: space of ~400 GB). This morning upon rebooting, I had a low memory warning and hard drive space had dropped to about 7MB! This has happened before -- I've moved files to an external drive freeing up several GB and again total space on C: drops to about 10MB after reboot. At the same time this has been occurring, I have also been receiving this error message at almost every boot:
Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occured with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified
Could these two things be related? I don't have access to the laptop currently, so unfortunately I won't be able to provide any screenshots or run diagnostics until later. I also plan to go through Brink's "Hard Disk Space -- How to Free Up and Recover" post. I am curious to hear whether anyone has come across this before. I am concerned that the hard drive may be failing. Thank you in advance.