jangor Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Apart from using the internet (very slowly) my computer has come to a grinding halt. Yesterday messages appeared "c:\windows\temp\secIE.tmp" then "low disc Space. Your are running very low on disc space on local disc c". I have tried running disk cleanup but after four hours nothing has happened. I have tried to remove some programmes but have been unable to do this because using add and remove a list is not populated. I am unsure what to do next to free up some disc space. I also receive a message "C:\symclogs\eraserutilrebootDrv.log is corrupt and unreadable". As advised, I have tried running chkdsk.exe but this runs through but doesn't make any difference, the message still appears. I am quite desperate as I have urgent work to do but I am not making any progress.Help, help!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Welcome to the Windows Forum.I would first recommend that you clear your browser cache to make a little space available on your disk.Next, download, install, and run CCleaner; that should free up some more disk space.At this stage I would recommend that you do some scanning for malware on your system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jangor Posted June 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 Thankyou for welcoming me, I will try all your advice. Being IT illiterate I am panic very quickly. I am unsure if the message relates to my Norton Internet Security because the icon does not appear in the tray any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael___ Posted June 19, 2007 Report Share Posted June 19, 2007 This is a cool, useful, and free utility that helps with disk cleanup. http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/WinDirStat/windirstats.html It will scan your drive and then show you a visual diagram of sorts to help you picture what on your machine is using up the most space. This way you can quickly identify what is hogging space and whether or not some of them can be deleted. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 That hard drive is probably tore up, and is seriously fragmented giving you the benefit of possibly having bad sectors. You can download/install/use programs to clean it up some but in the end... it'll just come back and haunt you.Those Utilities are helpful, but if your in need for a second or third hard-drive. I would recommend it 110% only because you can free up disk space from the harddrive that the OS resides on.Utilities like those are very handy, but in the situation your in with the slowness or definite halts. Its an easy choice for some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael___ Posted June 21, 2007 Report Share Posted June 21, 2007 You can have a corrupt file system, and be short on drive space without having a bad hard drive. However, I do agree that large hard drives these days are pretty cheap. So rather than fight the lack of space battle all day long, it might be easier to find out how big your drive is and buy something bigger. Then you can use their utility to do a system copy to the new drive and be up and running; assuming that your filesystem isn't so corrupt that the errors from your windows installation follow you onto the new drive. If that is the case you may want to do a fresh install on your new shiny big hard drive.Here is a link to Seagate/Maxtor drive installation support page. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/i...ion_assistance/Make sure you get the right type of drive for your system. You most likely have either a PATA drive, or a SATA drive. PATA is sometimes just referred to as ATA. SATA is the newer of the two standards.Good luck,Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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