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hard disk shows incorrect amount of free space
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mgk
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25. June 2007 @ 10:17 |
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Originally posted by GrandpaBW:
I am out of ideas. You could do a search of your C: drive to see where there are large files.
Many thanks for your help and support anyway,i appreciate it. I am more aware of what is expected and needs to be done for this experience.
I have decided to invest on an external hard drive short term, but would like to recover my lost hd on my existing internal disk. So would appreciate any further suggestions and will keep this thread subscribed.
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25. June 2007 @ 13:45 |
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Whats the filesystem of the harddrive in use?
To check this go My computer > Click the harddrive in use.
It should say at the left of the screen filesystem:
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mgk
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25. June 2007 @ 14:57 |
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Originally posted by lecsiy:
Whats the filesystem of the harddrive in use?
To check this go My computer > Click the harddrive in use.
It should say at the left of the screen filesystem:
Hi
File system is NTFS
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25. June 2007 @ 14:59 |
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Ahh was hoping it was gonna be Fat32 could have been a source of the problem.
But no NTFS is fine.
I'l give the problem a think and will get back to you if i can think of anything!
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25. June 2007 @ 15:03 |
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Do you have any knowledge of booting up Gparted live?
Im thinking you could have a bad partition? I mean its a long shot but if you want to give it a go.....
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25. June 2007 @ 16:12 |
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I had a similar prob to this before.
I was missing over 100gb on my hd and I couldn't find it.
This happened after i did a system restore......In the end I solved my problem by downloading a software called "Folder Sizes", this shows you every file and folder on your hd and also the size of it.
My 100gb worth of stuff was in a folder that i couldn't open and according to windows xp it contained 0kb........
"Folder Sizes" told me my data was in there, and I was able to boot into safe mode and unlock my folder and free up my space.
Download folder sizes and give it ago and have a read of this article also http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t...ard-drives.html
Good luck
Sandisk
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mgk
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25. June 2007 @ 16:25 |
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Originally posted by lecsiy:
Do you have any knowledge of booting up Gparted live?
Im thinking you could have a bad partition? I mean its a long shot but if you want to give it a go.....
Sorry but never heard of Gparted before?
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mgk
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25. June 2007 @ 16:29 |
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Originally posted by sandisk:
I had a similar prob to this before.
I was missing over 100gb on my hd and I couldn't find it.
This happened after i did a system restore......In the end I solved my problem by downloading a software called "Folder Sizes", this shows you every file and folder on your hd and also the size of it.
My 100gb worth of stuff was in a folder that i couldn't open and according to windows xp it contained 0kb........
"Folder Sizes" told me my data was in there, and I was able to boot into safe mode and unlock my folder and free up my space.
Download folder sizes and give it ago and have a read of this article also http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t...ard-drives.html
Good luck
Sandisk
Thanks a lot for the info, this seems promising .... i'll give it a try.
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mgk
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27. June 2007 @ 10:38 |
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Hi, success at last,
Just thought i would let you all know I have finally managed to get my HARD DRIVE sorted, after a combination of things. Mainly deleting files and removing many big programmes. I now have approx 40 GB of free space and have been defragging with a smile.
So many many thanks to all of you (esp GrandpaBLW for his patience)for your input ... i couldnt have done it without all your valuable advice.
One final thing how can i now schedule a weekly defrag or disc cleanup, is it possible to coincide it with my weekly virus scan ?
Thanks again everyone!!!!!!
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27. June 2007 @ 11:29 |
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Great to hear!
Thanks for reportinh back most people just leave it when theyve cracked their problem!
Happy computering :-)
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28. June 2007 @ 11:48 |
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One final thing how can i now schedule a weekly defrag or disc cleanup, is it possible to coincide it with my weekly virus scan ?
If you have mcafee, then I know that there is a little menu type thing that will let you do that. If you dont, then I think they're are a couple of 3rd party programs out there.... Google is your friend!! :)
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28. June 2007 @ 14:38 |
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Originally posted by mgk:
Hi, success at last,
Just thought i would let you all know I have finally managed to get my HARD DRIVE sorted, after a combination of things. Mainly deleting files and removing many big programmes. I now have approx 40 GB of free space and have been defragging with a smile.
So many many thanks to all of you (esp GrandpaBLW for his patience)for your input ... i couldnt have done it without all your valuable advice.
One final thing how can i now schedule a weekly defrag or disc cleanup, is it possible to coincide it with my weekly virus scan ?
Thanks again everyone!!!!!!
You are welcome, and I am glad that you were able to free up the space.
Life is good!
GrandpaBruce - Vietnam Vet - 1970 - 1971
Computer: Intel Core i7-920 Nehalim;Asus P6T Deluxe V2
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ddp
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28. June 2007 @ 14:47 |
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mgk, check in task scheduler for that.
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nico2081
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29. June 2007 @ 15:44 |
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Hi guys,
It Worked for me. Inside C:\RECYCLER (Set show hidden folders option)was lot of big files, in my case 24GB.
P.D:Rename the files that don´t allow you to delete it.
Hope this work for you.
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