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Stolen Hard drive space ???

KAZZBAR — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:51:15 GMT

Greetings Vaio users,
I am wondering if anyone can advise me as regards a strange phenomenon on my FX-701 (well it seems strange to me)!

I have just added more RAM to my laptop (supplied by Crucial) another 256 mb to upgrade it to 512 mb and all went smoothly, with the added memory being recognised ok and everything working well.
However.... when I check the properties of the C/ Drive it appears that about another 1 and a 1/2 GIG of disc space is now being shown as used space.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this should be ? (has it been taken up by an amended paging file setting etc) or have I missed making any extra tweaks to accommodate the new memory ?

Its kind of annoying as I had just spent a lot of time freeing up used disk space and now have nearly gone back to square one again.

Any advise anyone could offer would be most appreciated.

Kind regards,

Andy.

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

gigierk — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:11:04 GMT

Is ist possible that your setting for the Tempory Internetfile is to hight? Or the Temp Files form Windows must be deleted?

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

robpaxton — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:15:13 GMT

If you use hibernation then the hibernation file size will have increased . . . .

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

KAZZBAR — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:34:01 GMT

Thanks for the response guys,
I have checked out all the temp files I can think of and I do not really use hibernation (as well as having a general rummage about) but still have not found out what has claimed the disk space.
Its really quite bizzare and I don't remember seeing anywhere on crucial's web site about any negative effects installing extra memory would have.

Anymore idea's please ?

(Despite loving my Vaio to bits, with a mere 20 gig Hard drive I do like to keep the system as clutter free as possible)

Cheers for now,

Andy.

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

Jay1 — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 03:02:52 GMT

adding ram should not affect the hard drive even if it did not by 11/2 gig, that is too much. if u think i am not right then there is only one physical way to check it. that is by taking the ram out and see by magic u have increased the HDD space i doubt it but i will be subprise if it did.

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

gigierk — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:32:53 GMT

Do you have checkt your Vaio with an Anti Spyware Tool like Spybot?

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

kee-lo_ — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:51:08 GMT

A Rob said I think it's hibernation, and it's also the Windows file which it uses as cache, which increases with RAM size (it's set as a percentage)

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

KAZZBAR — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:59:54 GMT

Greetings again,
Yes I use spybot, Ad-aware, and M/S Anti-spyware tools and regularly clean up the system with disk clean up and the defragmenter etc.

With regards the paging file, the managed size is 767 MB (recommended = 766 and if I were to use a paging file of 1 1/2 times the the size of 512 MB it equates to 768 MB)
Would anyone recommend different a different size ?

Regarding hibernation, is there anyway to tweak its setting (despite the fact I do not use it) ie- can it be disabled or made to stop from allocating itself space if that is indeed what it is doing.

Finally (sorry to go on) what about the cache size for web browsing ? I use Firefox and the cache size for that is 50 MB and is also set the same for IE. Can that make any difference regarding the problem ?

Once again, thanks for your time and advise so far.

Regards,

Andy

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

kee-lo_ — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:23:51 GMT

Andy

768MB for the paging file is fine.
So if 50MB for Firefox, making it larger will just waste hard disk space.

As for hibernation if you don't use it it shouldn't use any space at all.

Re: Stolen Hard drive space ???

KAZZBAR — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 22:34:05 GMT

:smileythinking: :smileyd_oh:
Cheers at least I know that those two things can be eliminated.
I will just have to keep on investigating what the cause is, maybe contacting Crucial might find an answer.

In the mean time if anyone has any more idea's.......???

Regards,

Andy.