CD DRIVE reducing in free space every minute.

[PANICKING]

My CD Drive is reducing on free space, I don't know why. 5 minutes ago it had 60 gb of free space, now is 58 gb. It is shrinking by the minutes. What can I do?

I'm not even touching the computer.

 

[Johnthephoneguy]

Is there a disc in the drive? Is it being written to?

if you watch the disc in explorer what do you see?

JohnThePhoneGuy

"If I can't fix it, it's not broke!

 

[PANICKING]

There is none.

 

[PANICKING]

Now it is 54 gb of free space.

 

[vacunita]

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Your CD-Drive? For starters there is no known CD media than can hold 60GB.

Second if there is no disc in the drive then there's no capacity in the drive. The drive itself can't store any information. Its the CDs or DVDs that have capacity and its that capacity that may diminish if the CD is writable and being written to. If its not writable it does not have free space. So when you put in a CD it should always read as X size with 0 free space.

What happens if you put a CD in the drive does the capacity change?








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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[BadBigBen]

For starters there is no known CD media than can hold 60GB.

Well, almost, as it is still in the making...

500GB, where how why: GE unveils holographic disc breakthrough

@ Panicking - or do you mean your C: drive? More info is necessary...

but for starters I would run AntiViral / Malware scans...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.

 

[wahnula]

...or download and run WinDirStat to get a graphical image of the disk (hard disk, not CD) and which file is currently growing. At 4GB every 20 minutes it should be obvious...unless there is some leg-pulling afoot.

Tony

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