Hard Drive Space lost?

Ryuzaki

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Okay, this has been going on for a while, and I'm getting sick of it.


Since a couple months ago, roughly July of last year, I've been losing disk space on my C drive even when I haven't downloaded a single byte or installed any programs. Though this might sound crazy, I've looked for viruses like a detective, in hopes that it's what's causing this. But I don't have a virus, and I'm down to 16.4 GB out of a 232 GB HDD. I'm going crazy, because since then, I've had a 32 GB average of anything on that drive, and I had a couple games and programs on there even with that in there. In 3 weeks, I've been losing at least 3 GB.

Please help me, I've tried:
-Deleting every restore point/shadow copy except the most recent
-Overlooked the winsxs folder, it's only 8.35 GB, I can live with that.
-Downloaded TreeSize, found that a folder called [Files], taking up 201,663 MB: should I delete this file? The owner is called 'TrustedInstaller' according to TreeSize.

Thanks so much for any reply.
-Ryuzaki
 

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hey man, i no you said u deleted all the restore points, but if you go to "backup and restore center" and go to "create a restore point or change settings" if u still have a hard drive checked thats where your losing your space. i had that issue on my laptop and i was deleting the the backups but was still losing about 500mbs a day. after i unchecked it everything was back to awsome.

hope that helped in some way
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    ME Model #lukeroberts
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II x3 720 Black Edition
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte / XFX
    Memory
    6 GB/3 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon 4870
    Monitor(s) Displays
    25.5" Viewsonic / 19" LG / 17" NEC
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200
    Hard Drives
    500 GB Seagate Barracuda x3
    PSU
    Rocketfish(lol) 700w SLI
    Mouse
    Logitech
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
alright man i did a little research and came up with something. trustedinstaller.exe is a windows program it works with Windows Module Installer and when the system requires an update it kciks in and starts using your computer up. now it can apparently really slow down the computer and even push your cpu to high usage percentages and hard disk activity BUT in this case the amount of space you lost shouldnt be effected. i think the trustedinstaller has just been somehow been altered. apparently if you check your processes on your task manager you can see it but wont be able to terminate it. you might have to reinstall windows brother
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    ME Model #lukeroberts
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II x3 720 Black Edition
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte / XFX
    Memory
    6 GB/3 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon 4870
    Monitor(s) Displays
    25.5" Viewsonic / 19" LG / 17" NEC
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200
    Hard Drives
    500 GB Seagate Barracuda x3
    PSU
    Rocketfish(lol) 700w SLI
    Mouse
    Logitech
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
The file is not called TrustedInstaller. It's a big blob of memory called [Files] taking up 187 GB. I don't see TrustedInstaller running anywhere in the task manager though. It's really weird. But, I do need this space really bad. I'm not sure how I can delete this folder though.

-Ryuzaki
EDIT: I do not see [Files] in my C Drive directly, I can only see it through TreeSize.
 

My Computer

The file is not called TrustedInstaller. It's a big blob of memory called [Files] taking up 187 GB. I don't see TrustedInstaller running anywhere in the task manager though. It's really weird. But, I do need this space really bad. I'm not sure how I can delete this folder though.

-Ryuzaki
EDIT: I do not see [Files] in my C Drive directly, I can only see it through TreeSize.

you said it was "owned" by trustedinstaller though (The owner is called 'TrustedInstaller' according to TreeSize.)

the link below gives a step by step on how to turn trustedinstaller off. worth a shot?
TrustedInstaller.exe Process 100% High CPU Usage in Vista Task Manager Fix » My Digital Life
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    ME Model #lukeroberts
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II x3 720 Black Edition
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte / XFX
    Memory
    6 GB/3 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon 4870
    Monitor(s) Displays
    25.5" Viewsonic / 19" LG / 17" NEC
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200
    Hard Drives
    500 GB Seagate Barracuda x3
    PSU
    Rocketfish(lol) 700w SLI
    Mouse
    Logitech
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
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