How to determine a disk consuming service in Windows 2008 server?

Solution 1:

I would starty by running the free program windirstat against the system drive. It will provide a graphical view of the folders on your machine, the space they take up, and the filetypes that are consuming the space.

Take a look through the top folders it displays, and look to see if there are files in there that you don't know about.

Once you determine the "where" then Process Monitor or even the old "filemon" from sysinternals can help identify the process that is creating or updating the files.

I also assume that you have removed the microsoft patch "uinistallation' directories in the Windows folders. Generally, everything in the systemroot\system32 folder that starts with a dollar sign EXCEPT $hf_mig can go...

Hope this helps,

Glenn