Scratch disc.....Baffled!!!

[Pelican]

I've never had this come up before and I haven't been able to figure it out.

For the last couple of weeks, if I go to use my crop tool, it fails with the alert that my scratch discs are full. How can this be? My primary is an external with about 200gb open and my secondary is C\ with about 150gb open.

PS and the whole computer for that matter, is moving at snails pace.

This sucks!! I got work to do!!! If I could get it done faster, I'd haz more time for chopzinn..

[t3ch]

Did you run spyware scans? That's most likely the problem for the slowness.

There are a ton of programs out there. I use a combo of adaware and spybot.

[Pelican]

I've run everything I've got. I'm considering crashing it again. The re-install (of everything) would take several days though and I don't have time for that either. Crap!!

[t3ch]

Well, you could do a system restore. It works for me.

Start>run>msconfig>launch system restore.

make sure to choose a date before it started messing up.

[Pelican]

No worky......Grrrrrrrrr!!!!

[Lazarus]

You could copy your essential files to your external, then reinstall...

Just write down drivers you need. It's a pain, but it should be done


Good luck! may the peps be with you

[Pelican]

Mostly, right now, I just need to figure out the scratch disc problem. I have to be able to crop a pic....

[tx51210]

How much stuff do you have loaded in the bottom right corner of the screen? If you can exit some of those add-ins or uninstall them you might free ups some space.

When was the last time your disk was optimized and which disk do you have your scratch disk set to use? That volume is usually the problem area (assuming you don't have a corruption problem).

Have you tried to crop other files or just one file. That file could be bad.

Just some ideas.

[Pelican]

My system tray, if thats what you mean, just has a few pretty normal things I always have had there and use a lot.

It doesn't matter what I try to crop. I've tried every available drive as a scratch disc and always get the same alert.

[tx51210]

Yes I was refering to your sys tray. See some folks build up tons of stuff. Assume you verified your not in the process of downloading and auto update from microsoft or other.

You have done a cold boot (power off) for like 30sec to completely clear memory?

[Dookie]

If you have that much room on the primary drive, you really don't need the scratch disk anyway.

[tx51210]

You will always have a scratch drive, even if it's your primary. I agree that he has adequte room, but it sounds like he has a software or memory problem that is not allowing him to access available memory.

[Pelican]

Done all the dummy stuff, done as much smart stuff as I know. Still no worky!!