Comments on: keeping us busy

By: juan

juan — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:47:11 +0000

your explanation has helped me greatly. i am running win7 64bit. and i have always run the program normally. so for a 60gb ssd, i get 40% unknown & 30% windows. reading this i decided to run it as administrator, and was happy to see quite a few differences: windows 66% & NOTHING under unknown.
in other words, nothing was the matter. from now on i will always run the program as admin.

before arriving at your post ,trying to find the ‘unknown’
i stopped windows restore, delete hyberfile.sys and stopped that nasty wmpnetwk process (it had built a database of about 1.2Gigs)- i have no backups set up.

thus freeing quite a bit of the drive-

regardless, its nice to see that the supposed unknown are just windows files.

thanks again. danka.

by the way i agreee 100% about the english language only version being a terribly silly idea.

By: Yaniv

Yaniv — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:01:53 +0000

I was able to fix my problem. I am not sure exactly what worked because it didn’t happen until I restarted. I didn’t have windows back up enabled but I ran some command line I found on the web to limit the size to 2 GB and that might be what worked.

By: Lennart

Lennart — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:54:53 +0000

Hi Oliver,
I have a similar problem. Lately I’ve noticed that space is disappearing from drive C, and I think some program is causing this.
My partition C is 5 Gb, and all files and folders are all together 2.5 Gb. Still there is only 300 Mb left, and the space becomes smaller and smaller.
About 8 months ago the remaining space was about 2.5 Gb.

My recycle bin is empty, and I can see all system/hidden files.

Your program now shows about 2.3 Gb unknown space.
I’ve tried to run Rootkit. It shows nothing related to the problem.

It must be that some program reserves space withought returning it when done.
The same procedure is used when there are errors on the disk. The bad space is blocked. But this disk has no errors. Maybe some hd tool can release that space back?
It’s 2 dynamic disks that are mirrored. Running w2k server.
I’ve tried Checkdisk from within System properties with no luck.
Do you think a chkdsk /f c: with restart could do it, even if it is blocked like bad space?

By: yaniv

yaniv — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:46:20 +0000

I should point out that this is not the unknown issue. That is only 1.6 GB

By: yaniv

yaniv — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:39:46 +0000

MY computer lists the drive as using 79GB and windirstat is listing it as 32.4. Rootkit does not work on vista 64. Any ideas?

By: Luis

Luis — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:45:05 +0000

Hi Oliver, I guess I was another one wondering what to do with the , I downloaded the rootkit revealer but it refuses to run on vista premium 64, also got the other two programs you suggested but they are way above my comprehension…any suggestions.
Thanks