Jackie,

Not sure if it is related but My EX485 had some issues with the video converter causing it to do allot of reboots. All the reboots and hard crashes filled up the system drive. It was an easy fix once I found the log files created.

First thing I would suggest doing is look at the Event log in Windows. See if there is anything strange happening like allot of unexpected restarts. If you use video converter I would turn it off if you can.

Once that is done then just open up the C: drive and select a few folders and then right click and go to properties. Keep an eye out for anything that is rather large. If I remember correctly, other then the windows folder most are fairly small. Once you identify the folders that seem to be larger go into the folder and review the properties again of any folders below. Basically looking for the location again with the majority if the storage. you should be able to drill down until you find the folder that has the offending log files. Delete them and then remove them from the recycle bin. You should be good at that point.

The specific issue I had was the HP Video Converter was giving the lovely blue screen of death when trying to transcode DVRMS files. It was suppose to be able to support them but it seems that sporatically it would just have issues with them. Then sometimes it would figure it out and skip the file and sometimes it wouldn't and just reboot continously until I caught it.

Once you identify were the logs are you may want to create a shortcut on the server so you can go clear them out if you need to again.

Mavrrick HTPC1(Phenom 9950/8GB/HDPVR/HVR-2250)(Bedroom computer and TV with 24" Dell Ultrasharp) HTPC2(Core i3 530/4GB/Ceton InfiniTV4)(Serves living room TV) DIY WHS2011Core i5 2400 (1x1.5TB,2x2TB,2x3TB)

I had this same issue a few hours ago and what i did was download
http://download.cnet.com/TreeSize-Free/3000-2248_4-10139400.html?tag=mncol;1

TreeSizeFreeSetup.exe
an app of less than 3mb that can tell you how the space is being used, from there i could see that i had over 9GB!!!! of system dump files on my system partition, it was a simple matter of deleting these files (with TreeSizeFree) and i was back to 11gb free space. I had just 63mb free b4 this.


As some have mentioned here, log files could also grow to monstrous sizes but that was not the case with me.

Jackie S. said: I think I found an issue with the CCLean application used to clean up the log files, it turns out all the passwords to the users have been erased. Can someone please verify this?

Hmmm.... that's not an issue I'm having.

If you think they're related, you could uncheck everything for the autoclean, and just put the folder where the log files reside in the manual include section. That will only delete that specific folder's contents on restart.