[Solved] Sudden Disk Space Loss

[vavaseur]

I have an HP Pavilion desk top PC. There has always been ample space on the hard drive, in fact, I have always had around 60% free space. Yesterday I noticed that I now only have about 3.06GB free out of a total of 912GB and I am very concerned.

 

Looking at the folders on C: I notice that there is a folder called "Erase919.tmp". When I go to properties on this folder it is showing that it is 502GB and yet the folder appears to be empty. Could this be the cause of the problem, if so how could this have happened, and can I delete this folder to reclaim the hard drive space that I have always had in the past?

 

Thanks in anticipation,

vavaseur

 

btw I forgot to mention I am using Windows 8.1

Edited March 15, 2014 by vavaseur

[KenB]

Hi,

 

Erase919 comes up with nothing when I Google it.

 

What you have posted is a temp file - and as such is not needed.

If the folder is "empty" the file(s) could be hidden.

I am unsure why or how it was created but you can certainly delete it as temporary files are exactly that - temporary.

[Ray1000]

There is a response from Google when you enter "919.tmp"... I don't know if this is helpful.

 

Ray

[vavaseur]

Thank you both for your responses. The problem is actually fixed; I believe it was the result of an incomplete east-tec Eraser erase process. I don't know why this happened but after completing the process the disk space is showing a more sensible 505GB of free space. I also expect that the numbers I quoted above was not really a true reflection of available space: If there really had been only 3.05GB free out of 902GB, I doubt if the PC would have even worked!

 

Once again, thanks for your help.

 

Cheers,

vavaseur

[KenB]

Thanks for the input Ray :)

 

I will mark this one as "Solved"

 

I doubt if the PC would have even worked!

You would certainly have noticed Windows slowing down - it need about 10% free disk space to operate properly.

 

Good to hear the your machine is back to normal :)