I've got a problem with my hard disks and its driving me mad, I dont have a clue what could be causing it.
Basically I have two Hard drives set up. One (C:\) is 10gb and the other (E:\) is 5gb.
I've been trying to burn VCD's but it wont work fully. When I go to burn it doesn't fully read the files I want to burn. I put this down to the fact that there is not enough free temp space on drive C (this has always been the problem before). So I decided to delete files from C: and move some files across to E: to free up space.
This is where the problems start...
For some reason, the amount of available free space seems to be screwed up. The amount will just vastly change for no reason, and I have no true idea of how much free space there actually is.
Here are some examples.
I went to burn a CD, but it wouldn't fully work even though (right click on C drive -> properties) was showing over 1gb of free space. I decided to reboot my PC, and when I checked after that there is only 200mb free!
I then moved a 600 mb file to E: and it showed that I had 800 mb free. The CD still would not burn so I shut down and rebooted again and it shows 250mb free, even though the file is now on E:.
I'm getting more and more annoyed at this point so I decide to move a load of stuff over to E:, and basically fill up E: drive (only 100mb was left free). This now left me with 800mb free on C:. I go to burn the CD and supprise supprise it still doesn't fully work. I reboot and now I only have 50mb free on C: drive.
The only thing I can think of is that the CD writting software (Adaptec Easy CD creator 4 deluxe) is leaving temp files all over C: when the cd burn attempts are unsuccesful. However, I've looked for files like this and can't find them, and I've run Norton clean sweep to get rid of needless files and it does nothing.
Im now in the position where I can do very little as I have practically no hard drive space left.
Does any one have any idea as to what is happening and what I can do to try and fix this.
Thanks in advance.