{"id":7449,"date":"2014-06-19T03:58:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T03:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/19\/windows-7-disk-errors-after-a-few-hours-of-runtime-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T03:58:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T03:58:29","slug":"windows-7-disk-errors-after-a-few-hours-of-runtime-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/19\/windows-7-disk-errors-after-a-few-hours-of-runtime-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 disk errors after a few hours of runtime-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having trouble understanding what is going on with my work PC. Whenever I boot it, it runs fine for a while, then starts to randomly show disk errors. The displayed error often contains the message &#8220;not enough storage is available to process this command&#8221;, although depending on the application that fails it can be different. This has happened for weeks now and is getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>This is what troubles me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It never seems to impact critical parts of the system (no BSOD, no freeze).<\/li>\n<li>Only some applications seem impacted, refusing to function correctly after a while: Outlook 2010 cannot download RSS feeds anymore, Firefox 6 or IE9 cannot download anything bigger than 3MB without failing, Windows Update fails, all msi installers fail, Visual Studio 2010 starts failing in weird manners&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>It only happens after a while using it (typically 3 hours, but it seems that installing a program or compiling several times makes it shorter)<\/li>\n<li>Rebooting solves it (temporarily).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The OS is Windows 7 Pro Spanish SP1, 32 bits<\/li>\n<li>The system is an HP Compaq 6000 Pro with 4 GB memory (only 3.4GB usable since the system is 32bit), one 500GB hard drive.<\/li>\n<li>Installed applications include: Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, VMWare Workstation 7, Microsoft Security Essentials, Office 2010. Shutting down all related services and processes doesn&#8217;t seem to change anything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The diagnostics I&#8217;ve run so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hard drive : 465GB, 165GB free<\/li>\n<li>Process Explorer : physical and virtual memory seem ok (pagefile is 5.3GB, physical memory usage 70%, system commit 39%)<\/li>\n<li>Windows Memory diagnostic tool: OK<\/li>\n<li>CHKDSK returned:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code> 488282111 KB total disk space.\n 281668248 KB in 265779 files.\n    150188 KB in 62949 indexes.\n         0 KB in bad sectors.\n    571755 KB in use by the system.\nThe log file has occupied 65536 kilobytes.\n 205891920 KB available on disk.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For non-spanish speakers, that means all ok.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SMART diagnostic tools (DiskCheckup) report all values normal.<\/li>\n<li>temperatures are in the normal range (HWinfo).<\/li>\n<li>The event viewer doesn&#8217;t seem to contain any significant message.<\/li>\n<li>ran CCleaner 3, without any noticeable effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was thinking about some file number limit (between Visual Studio projects and other applications, there are around 300.000 files on the hard drive), but I couldn&#8217;t find any. It&#8217;s possible there is something related with the use of the temporary folders (it&#8217;s the only explanation I have for why applications fail but Windows doesn&#8217;t), but I cannot confirm that.<\/p>\n<p>Only thing I cannot find out is if chkdsk reporting 65MB for the log is normal. It seems since Vista it always reports this.<\/p>\n<p>Any other cleaning\/diagnostic tool you might know of?<\/p>\n<p>Edit: I ran several other tools since I first published the question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seagate SeaTools (the HD manufacturer&#8217;s analysis tool): complete test run OK.<\/li>\n<li>Intel Rapid 10.1 (the HD controller manufacturer&#8217;s troubleshooting tool): the HD&#8217;s ok.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Desktop Heap Monitor:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Desktop Heap Information Monitor Tool (Version 8.1.2925.0) Copyright<\/p>\n<h2>(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.<\/h2>\n<p>Session ID: 1 Total Desktop: ( 46464 KB &#8211; 11 desktops)<\/p>\n<h2>WinStation\\Desktop Heap Size(KB) Used Rate(%)<\/h2>\n<p>WinSta0\\Winlogon (s1) 128 3.6 WinSta0\\Disconnect (s1) 64 3.8 WinSta0\\Default (s1) 20480 3.0 msswindowstation\\mssrestricteddesk (s0) 1024 0.2 __X78B95_89_IW__A8D9S1_42_ID (s0) 1024 0.2 Service-0x0-3e5$\\Default (s0) 1024 0.6 Service-0x0-3e4$\\Default (s0) 1024 0.3 Service-0x0-3e7$\\Default (s0) 1024 2.1 WinSta0\\Winlogon (s0) 128 1.9<\/p>\n<p>WinSta0\\Disconnect (s0) 64 3.8<\/p>\n<h2>WinSta0\\Default (s0) 20480 0.0<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All ok, desktop heap usage &lt; 5%<\/p>\n<p>Edit 2: I tried totally resetting my account by creating a new one, logging under this new one and delete the first one (local rights and files), then logging back with this deleted account (it is a domain account). No luck.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I found out often the error is &#8220;not enough storage is available to process this command&#8221;. Searching on the internet, I found an old troubleshooting tip (setting a registry key to raise the IRP stack limit, whatever it is) which did not change anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having trouble understanding what is going on with my work PC. Whenever I boot it, it runs fine for a while, then starts to randomly show disk errors. The displayed error often contains the message &#8220;not enough storage is available to process this command&#8221;, although depending on the application that fails it can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}