[Scgeeks] Re: System Files Growing on External USP HD

[Kenneth Brody]

Canopus wrote:
> 
> Win XP Pro SP2.
> 
> I've Googled often for this and find no answers.  Have installed USB HD
> formatted in NTFS and transfered my music files to it.  Whenever I run
> Disk Keeper Light to defrag it I see a large number of Systems Files
> (Highlighted green) taking up almost the same space as my music files.  I
> have PC set to show Systems Files and see such things as ini files,
> thumbs.db, some jpg files generated by WMP etc., but, all these System
> Files I see should only be a very small percentage of the total file size
> on the HD.  So why are all these other System Files being reported by Disk
> Keeper, what are they and what can one do about them?  I'm also seeing
> this on other drives other than my OS partition, but, not to the extent on
> my External HD.

Any chance these are the recycle bin, or something similar?

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