Solved Blue Screen of Death Crashes Eating Disk Space

[pamholz]

Hi all,

My system had been fairly stable but I have crashed a few times in the last couple of days and I've noticed a drastic reduction in the amount of free space on my hard drive. I suspect the crash data is being written somewhere but I'm not sure where to look. There was another post on this site that promised directions, but like is bad or I don' have permissions. Could someone send me a link or tell me where to look for the crash files?

Thanks.

 

[zigzag3143]

Crash logs called DMPS are usually stored in c:\windows\minidump. An alternate site is c:\windows and the file should be called memory.dmp.

I doubt this is what is eating HD space.


If the DMPs are there you should upload them. We may be able to tell you the problem.

 

[pamholz]

Thank you! I found files in both locatoins. Two are only 273 kb and oand is 451401 kb. Any preference as to which one I should upload?

 

[zigzag3143]

Thank you! I found files in both locatoins. Two are only 273 kb and oand is 451401 kb. Any preference as to which one I should upload?

Both. If you zip them the first will upload the second may be too big, If it is you can upload them to a file sharing service like rapidshare and give us a link to it.