# Where did all of my Dell's hard drive space go?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-all-of-my-dells-hard-drive-space-go/613730 "2012-02-23T14:33:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-all-of-my-dells-hard-drive-space-go/613730/21 "2012-02-24T00:43:14Z")

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I forget exactly what my son in law said the program did, but it filled my 80 gig drive in about a year.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-all-of-my-dells-hard-drive-space-go/613730/22 "2012-02-24T00:51:27Z")

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A 51 GB file would also take [7 days](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=g64&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%28%2851+*+1024%5E3%29+%2F+%2816*44100%2F8%29%29%2F3600%2F24&oq=%28%2851+*+1024%5E3%29+%2F+%2816*44100%2F8%29%29%2F3600%2F24) straight of recording with Audacity.

I think it’s more likely that the filesystem got corrupted somehow. Chkdsk probably would have fixed the problem, too.

Or some broken program is creating a log file with nearly 2 GB worth of data a day. You said you’ve only had the computer a month, right?

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-all-of-my-dells-hard-drive-space-go/613730/23 "2012-02-24T01:07:51Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> A 51 GB file would also take [7 days](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=g64&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%28%2851+*+1024%5E3%29+%2F+%2816*44100%2F8%29%29%2F3600%2F24&oq=%28%2851+*+1024%5E3%29+%2F+%2816*44100%2F8%29%29%2F3600%2F24) straight of recording with Audacity.
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> I think it’s more likely that the filesystem got corrupted somehow. Chkdsk probably would have fixed the problem, too.
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> Or some broken program is creating a log file with nearly 2 GB worth of data a day. You said you’ve only had the computer a month, right?

Correct.

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