[RESOLVED] Disk space

[kspeel]

super sparks you are always on here and will tke your word on that. I have been on virtual dr as long as you ,since 2000

[Dodge]

Have you done a good virus/trojan/spyware scan lately?

AVG doesn't use that much space. Mine has been installed for a year and I just checked it and its using 81mb's.

Sounds like you have something that was dumping data into that directory for some reason. I looked in AVG and there is nothing there that would cause this problem. So there is something somewhere that filled that file up.

[kspeel]

Always keep up to date with malwarebytes and superantispyware. Googled the problem and saw a forum were someone was getting on avg something called dump files and it was puttting 500mb a day in the directory,I myself have used AVG for quite a while and recommended it and installed it on alot of freinds but that was nuf for me to uninstall

[Dodge]

Yeah I just found that and came back to mention it. See you found the problem.

They say it is caused by something in AVG Crashing. Its nothing specific doing it, it seems to be different on each system, so they don't have a solution as of yet. Probably won't either since this has been going ona couple of years now...

[kspeel]

Seems like avg should let people know about this problem and tell them to uninstall. I was down to 128Mb .I am pretty sure that the computer would crash after the was no free space on hd.

[Dodge]

Your computer won't crash. You'll just keep getting warnings about Low disk space and you'll get to where you can do anything due to it. But, it won't actually crash or hurt it.

AVG should let people know, unfortunately most of these people dont want people to know whats going on.

Glad you found your problem and it is now fixed.

[kspeel]

Well if the word keeps spreading like this it might just bite them in the butt.Lol ,already informed all freinds of this issue and others should do the same. Guess this subject is closed. Have a good evening, Getting lots of snow here in Ohio

[comp_see]

I'm going install a new computer with Win7 H-Premium and a 500GB hard drive. Before I start, I want to make sure some issues on hard drive partitioning. I know that Win7 comes with its utility but its function is quite limited. Therefore, I need to well plan ahead such that resizing a partition can be avoided in the future.

1. Is there any 3rd party software, similar to PartitionMagic, which can allow me to add/delete/resize a partition and even merge 2 partitions after installation is completed.

2. Can I relocate the position of a partition such that I can add a new by the Win7. For example, I partition the 500GB into 250GB for C and 250GB for D. Later, I want to add a E. Can I resize the C to 200GB, D to 200GB and add E at the end as 100GB?

Thanks for your advice.

[Train]

100 for C:\ is better.

May I suggest reading this article.
http://www.petri.co.il/the-ultimate-...rtitioning.htm

It seems to cover what you want to do.

[SuperSparks]

1. Is there any 3rd party software, similar to PartitionMagic, which can allow me to add/delete/resize a partition and even merge 2 partitions after installation is completed.

2. Can I relocate the position of a partition such that I can add a new by the Win7. For example, I partition the 500GB into 250GB for C and 250GB for D. Later, I want to add a E. Can I resize the C to 200GB, D to 200GB and add E at the end as 100GB?

1) There is the excellent and free Gparted:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

2) You can resize partitions with Win7's Disk management, but there are restrictions on what can be done. In the scenario that you suggest, you could shrink D: and add another E: partition, but you would not be able to shrink C: (unless you were to delete D: altogether first.

[DVOM]

1) There is the excellent and free Gparted:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

2) You can resize partitions with Win7's Disk management, but there are restrictions on what can be done. In the scenario that you suggest, you could shrink D: and add another E: partition, but you would not be able to shrink C: (unless you were to delete D: altogether first.

Sparks, I've gotta disagree on this one. He could easily shrink both D and C, however that would leave 2 non-contiguous 50 Gig unallocated spaces. One on either side of the D partition.

He could then "move" the D over towards the C, however it would involve moving a lot of data which takes a monstrously long time and raises the risk of errors so I don't recommend it.