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[dogknot]

...snipped...If you select Start\My Computer\ then hover your mouse pointer over Local Disc (C), a que will pop up telling you how the total Gigabytes capacity is for the HD, and how many Gigabytes of free space is remaining. You will have to use math to figure the percentage of free space Vs HD space used. ...snipped...

Right-click on Local Disc (C), select properties, get a visual "pie" that shows Used Space, Free Space, and Capacity.

 

[phantomx1]

Scared to look at that pie shot of mine Dogknot You sure have a lot of room on yours. Nice!

My totals:
Used space: 44.5 GB
Free space: 8.16 GB
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Total HD space: 57.7 GB

 

[dogknot]

Scared to look at that pie shot of mine Dogknot You sure have a lot of room on yours. Nice!

My totals:
Used space: 44.5 GB
Free space: 8.16 GB
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Total HD space: 57.7 GB

Looks good, doesn't it!? I pulled all kinds of unnecessary junk off the C drive and put it on an external.

 

[sandar]

Just curious Sandar, what percentage of your hard drive if used and what percentage is free space left on your hard drive? I know my hardrive is near 85% used with about 15% free space left and this gives me trouble.

I keep trying to delete older larger file models that take up a lot of space which gives me more free space. In flight sim 9 I am having trouble after selecting [Go Fly], building textures load, then ground textures, then aircraft textures. It takes like 15 or 20 seconds for all to set. And sometimes have have trouble with FS9 not wanting to shut down, having to use Ctrl/Alt/Delete (Windows Task Manager) to shut it down.

Could your hard drive maybe be above capacity for good running? I know if my hardrive goes over 85% full and try to defrag, the system gives me a message saying that it can't defrag because the hardrive is above 85%

Just wondering if this may have something to do with the problems you are seeing. If you select Start\My Computer\ then hover your mouse pointer over Local Disc (C), a que will pop up telling you how the total Gigabytes capacity is for the HD, and how many Gigabytes of free space is remaining. You will have to use math to figure the percentage of free space Vs HD space used.

So what I am wondering is, is the problem you are having coming from an near full hard drive? You know we load a lot of planes on both our HD folders and also plenty into just FS9 itself.

My hardrive is 51% full or 49% empty depending which way you want to looka at it: 56.6 Gb used space and 55.1Gb free on a 111 Gb drive

 

[phantomx1]

Then that would seem that it would not be the reason for the troubles you have been seeing Sandar.

I know out of every computer I have gone through in the past 12 years, it seemed that as the hard drives reached somewhere near 75-85% capacity, those computers would gradually begin to become more and more unstable until the O.S. would finally become unstable and give up the ghost. Just the way it seemed to me anyway.

 

[sandar]

I have been busy getting rid of a trojan which had higher priority over FS9 (hard to believe, but true).

Now that problem is solved I have been working on the FS9 problem, except I have found out it is not only a FS9 problem. I have discovered that when I play videos (on you tube, or news items etc) my PC freezes requiring a reboot.

Apparently this an be caused by a multitude of reasons, both hardware and software. It could be drivers, corrupt software, corrupt Windows, dodgy RAM, video card, hard drive, over heating, faulty processor, duff PSU, the list goes on and on.

So far I have updated drivers, removed a sound card, checked for overheating. The PSU was replaced a couple of weeks ago, the video card, processor and Motherboard are all less than a year old, as is the RAM, so I am leaving them until last, but I will check connections.

I am looking for a new internal hard drive and will install it as soon as I have one. I am seriously thinking about upgrading to Windows 7.

Thanks to all of you who have tried to help.