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I have a HP MediaSmart Server (EX 490) with Windows Home Server out of the box. It comes with a single 1.0 TB drive partioned 20 GB for the System disk. The system disk keeps filling up. I haven't installed anything but McAfee. Without getting into the philosophical discussions of why they would partition it thus, what is the likely culprit of this debacle? My D: Partition has plenty of space. I can get into the server only through Remote Desktop.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Blanthor
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This happened to me on an HP EX490. My primary drive failed, so I re-installed the system. After final reboot, the system had 50MB free. Based on several other posts out there, I found 12GB of logs

This folder had 12.5GB of text files C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1

Deleting these gave the space I needed.

WHS by default has a 20GB drive. During the normal install process there is no option to select what the partition size should be. I did find once someone said to press a function key (possibly F10) during the initial bootup of the recovery/reinstall scripts and it would give a prompt to specify a C:\ partition size.

Mark Filley
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If you have rights to install software onto the machine then I suggest you try WinDirStat or other similar program to visually map what's actually using up the disk space. Then it might be easier to pinpoint the culprit(s) and do something about it.

Siim K
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I had this issue and part of the solution was to change the save data location of Windows Search (Indexing) to a folder I created on the D Drive. You can do this by using Remote Desktop connection.

Michael O'Leary
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Have you checked Volume Shadow copies? You can look under disk properties. Also do they have any applications hosted off of here? Could there be large amounts of files in the temp directory?

Nori
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