Help a virus is eating my hard drive!

[mike718]

I have my own pc that I have in my room. No one uses it except me. I had 5 GB left in my hard drive earlier today. But in the evenining I have only 64 Kb left. I have nothing left! I think it's definitely a virus that keeps duplicating itself all over my hard drive. I removed 15 mb of files in my computer, so then I checked out the c drive to see amount of space left. It said 15 mb left. Fine..Then one minute later it went down to 4 mb then to 64 kb. Now it's jumping every few minutes from 64 to 249 to 128. And so on. Is there a program I can get to get restore my hard drive space. Is there like a virus scanner or something. Someone please help.

 

[dumdum]

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[mike718]

I've tried AVG and norton antivirus 2002. But I don't have any virus's. This is very puzzling. Any ideas what I should do?

 

[mainegeek]

Try booting in safe mode. Empty your recycle bin and change its properties from 10% to 2% and then run scandisk and defrag.

 

[mike718]

mainegeek, I tried that but defrag required at least 15% disk space. It said I have 0%. I already got rid of files that I used but can't afford to get rid of more. I did disk clean up, but I gained nothing from that. Any other suggestions are welcome.

 

[mike718]

I tried to change my virual memory. My initial size is 192mb and my maximum size is 384mb. But i get an error saying there is not enough memory whenever I put a initial size higher or lower. Last time I check i now have 0 bytes left. I deleted all my temp files, internet files. But gained really nothing. Think i should reinstall my operating system and set up a new partion?

 

[GolferJohn]

To be absolutly certain to obliterate the virus (if that is what it is) you need to first delete the primary dos partition, then create a new one. You will need a bootable floppy with fdisk.exe on it. You could partition it, but this is not necessary, unless you have a need to.
Once you have the new partition created, you eill need to format it, then re-install your OS & programs.
I have partitioned my HD into c:, d:, e:, and f:
C: is 2GB, and has only windows on it. d:, and c: are data, and F: (1.5 GB) I use to store an image of c:. I use DriveImage, a program that will make an exact image of C: and store it. It takes less than 10 min to completely restore my OS and program installation tweaked the way I like it. I also burned a pristine image of C: onto a CDR, so NOTHING can corrupt my system that I cannot correct in under 30 min.

cheers,
John

 

[saveyourpc]

I agree with John on this one, also when you do fdisk, dont forget to do:

fdisk /mbr

and then do your standard fdisk.

this will wipe any virus from master boot record as well.

Good luck.