Hard Disc Loss

Gbuzz

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Feb 16, 2002
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i lost 6 G space on one of patrition of my hard disk, it shows i used up 34.7 G, but when i explored into it , chooing all the files and folders including those hidden ones, it is just 28.7G. I tried to run disk defrag but without any success. I am just thinking whether there is some other ways to get back my lost space instead of formating that patrition sinc ei don't have enough cd-r to backup the data on the HD right now.
Anybody get any idea?
 

chocoruacal

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Why bother posting if you're not going to list your operating system?!?! If you're no XP, its probably System Restore or the Page File using up that extra space.
 

sniperruff

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not to mention virtual memory and reserved for hibernate!

no WD does not break into your house at night and steal your HD space!
 

Matthias99

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Also Norton Systemworks Protected Recycle Bin (if you're running that). Lots of low-level system things eat up disk space without telling you.
 

EeyoreX

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Also, if you are usig an OS with the NTFS, you will lose space to the Master File Table (MFT). In other words, there could be one, or any combination of, reasons why your space appears to be "missing". Chances are good it's probably not "missing" but being used properly.

\Dan
 

Gbuzz

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I am using xp with the NTSF, the HD is is Seagate 80G 3 patritions 20/10/50, the 10 used to belong to linux, but when i was short of disk storage, i changed t into xp. Eveything was fine until recently when i delete sth. from the the 50G patrition, there is no increase in the HD, i did install the norton antivus 2003 at that time, which made my pc run slow, so i uninstalled norton and format the system patrition, the 20G one , and reinstalled the xp. Then i found this 6G loss
 

StraightPipe

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go to controlpanel/admisitator tools->computer mangament->disk managment.

i think the answer to your question will be there :)