I have a laptop running Vista Ultimate 32 bit, an Asus dual core.
It's a great laptop, very rugged. It has survived a lot of abuse, a 3 1/2 foot fall off a table, along with a Peach Smoothie landing on top of it.
Then, last weekend it got rained on. I dried it thoroughly for 2 days before re-applying power, it works fine.
EXCEPT - it was running out of disk space, so I went through and did some major surgery. I had some demo programs that were about 1 GB each, deleted those - etc. etc. Emptied the recycle bin, etc. etc.
But that drive (actually a partition on the single hard drive in the computer), shows no improvement - still about 582 MB on a 100 GB partition.
In Computer Management, Admin. Tools, Disk Management, I don't see anything directly that will help me.
Does this behavior sound familiar ?
Anybody know how to fix a system with this behavior - without re-loading the OS ?
Right now I'm running Defrag, but I'm not optimistic. Normally it tells me I need more disk space, sort of a Catch 22.
I also did a hard Shutdown, just to see if it would "see" the drive differently when it re-booted, now that the large-file-size crap has been deleted off it.
It's a great laptop, very rugged. It has survived a lot of abuse, a 3 1/2 foot fall off a table, along with a Peach Smoothie landing on top of it.
Then, last weekend it got rained on. I dried it thoroughly for 2 days before re-applying power, it works fine.
EXCEPT - it was running out of disk space, so I went through and did some major surgery. I had some demo programs that were about 1 GB each, deleted those - etc. etc. Emptied the recycle bin, etc. etc.
But that drive (actually a partition on the single hard drive in the computer), shows no improvement - still about 582 MB on a 100 GB partition.
In Computer Management, Admin. Tools, Disk Management, I don't see anything directly that will help me.
Does this behavior sound familiar ?
Anybody know how to fix a system with this behavior - without re-loading the OS ?
Right now I'm running Defrag, but I'm not optimistic. Normally it tells me I need more disk space, sort of a Catch 22.
I also did a hard Shutdown, just to see if it would "see" the drive differently when it re-booted, now that the large-file-size crap has been deleted off it.
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