I have seen this happen before but I don't think on this hard drive.
It's using NTFS and it's a 92.5gig partition on an IDE drive.
Well, it says the drive has alot less free space than it should. I believe there was about 2-4gigs free on it earlier on it tonite. I deleted 4.5gigs and the free space that is registered remains the same. I uninstalled 3 games which should be around 6gigs in space and it now reads the free space as 8.85gigs free. I should have around 14-16gigs free minimum but the files which were deleted (not the uninstalled files) did not seem to raise the free space at all.
I checked one of my larger directories, my Games directory, and even though it registers almost 22gigs with a properties on it, after adding up each sub-directory size it only totals just under 18gigs. Hehe This is the directory which registered space from the uninstall. I have a directory with patches/mods etc and it says it's larger than 3gigs but I can only account for 2.1gigs. I know it sounds strange, but something weird is happening to the drive. If I had a large drive, I would just back it up and then format the drive over again but I'm hurting on free space right now (hence the reason of trying to free up some space).
Can someone recommend a good hard drive utility which will diagnose and attempt to resolve the lost space? I have defragged which didn't raise the size at all. I ran check disk on it as well and there were no errors detected.
It's using NTFS and it's a 92.5gig partition on an IDE drive.
Well, it says the drive has alot less free space than it should. I believe there was about 2-4gigs free on it earlier on it tonite. I deleted 4.5gigs and the free space that is registered remains the same. I uninstalled 3 games which should be around 6gigs in space and it now reads the free space as 8.85gigs free. I should have around 14-16gigs free minimum but the files which were deleted (not the uninstalled files) did not seem to raise the free space at all.
I checked one of my larger directories, my Games directory, and even though it registers almost 22gigs with a properties on it, after adding up each sub-directory size it only totals just under 18gigs. Hehe This is the directory which registered space from the uninstall. I have a directory with patches/mods etc and it says it's larger than 3gigs but I can only account for 2.1gigs. I know it sounds strange, but something weird is happening to the drive. If I had a large drive, I would just back it up and then format the drive over again but I'm hurting on free space right now (hence the reason of trying to free up some space).
Can someone recommend a good hard drive utility which will diagnose and attempt to resolve the lost space? I have defragged which didn't raise the size at all. I ran check disk on it as well and there were no errors detected.
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