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Unread 28 Feb 2005, 16:19   #1
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Strange hard disk problem

My space is dissappearing. I have a 120gb drive partitioned in two parts, a 29Gb and 91Gb. The 29Gb one is my windows partition. Apparently I have 4Gb free, yet this is what all the files add up to: 20.8Gb, which means 5Gb has gone somewhere...Anyone have any insight into this prob? Id rather not reformat the drive just yet lol. Only had it like this for a few months.
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Re: Strange hard disk problem

its either disappeared into the file allocation table, or there are hidden files you cant select and thus cant get the file size of

either way, nothing unusual imo
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Re: Strange hard disk problem

sounds pretty typical for windows really :/
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Re: Strange hard disk problem

Do you have hidden files enabled. From the top of my head the pagefile is in the root of C:\ and is hidden by default. That could make up for quite a bit of your lost disk space.
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- Are you sure you got the counting system right? 1 GB is not 1 GB, you know. Some people sometimes use 1GB = 10 ^ 9 instead of 1GB = 2 ^ 30 (= 2³° ), eg. HDD sellers...
120 decimal GB are only 114,44 binary GB.

- Hidden files stuff...

- If you're using FAT: Do a Scandisk / Checkdisk. Sometimes after a crash, the free space of the partition won't be displayed correctly. Scandisk fixes this quite often actually, so it seems to happen a lot. But I don't know how "serious" this is, if only a couple of bytes or more. Probably depends on how many big files were open when the computer crashed.

- When using NTFS, you've got a Folder called "Systeme Volume Information". You can't access it, but there is some indexing and security stuff written... The size of it doesn't necessarily count, but it's still used.
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Re: Strange hard disk problem

Yes I can see all the hidden files. ITs not them.
I know the disk itself is only around 114 real Gb, but that doesnt explain where the 5Gb went in my 30 Gb partition lol. The total size of all the files DOES NOT equal the size of the used space as reported in my computer....you see my dilemma lol.

I thought about emailing M$ tech support, but then I took some medicine for my delirious condition....lol.
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Try a tool called TreeSize , there should be a full functional free / demo version out there somewhere, pls google.
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Re: Strange hard disk problem

Try install "Partition Magic" a good tools for organise your harddrive and stuff...
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Re: Strange hard disk problem

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Yes I can see all the hidden files. ITs not them.
I know the disk itself is only around 114 real Gb, but that doesnt explain where the 5Gb went in my 30 Gb partition lol. The total size of all the files DOES NOT equal the size of the used space as reported in my computer....you see my dilemma lol.

I thought about emailing M$ tech support, but then I took some medicine for my delirious condition....lol.
for your OS partition, disable and enable system restore.
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