Hard Drive Reporting Incorrect Free Space

[imported_vor]

I have two SATA Hard drives in my system. One of them was a bit low on space, so I moved a rather large directory (About 10 gigs) with Cut, then Pasted it to my drive C:.

My Computer still reports the 2nd hard drive as having about 400 megs free, whereas it should now report 10.4gigs. The moved folder is no longer on the 2nd disk. I've ran chkdsk, and chkdsk /f, in the hopes Windows would notice the disk error and correct it.

When I try to copy more than 400 megs to the drive, windows incorrectly reports the disk is full.

Has anyone else ever had a similar problem? Is there a utility that can fix this, or is reformating the answer?

 

[stevty2889]

Have you tried a defrag?

 

[natto fire]

This is kind of a long shot, but you might try emptying the recycling bin. (If you haven't already) Then try the XP disk cleanup, or a disk cleanup proggy. It sounds like something happened during the cut+paste that made windows delete the folder info, but not actually free the space on the disk.

 

[imported_nocturne]

There has to be some type of wiping utility that might be of use, but other than that beats me.

I'd try to get Diskeeker and defrag the MFT at boot, defrag the folders at boot, and then do a full defrag.

 

[imported_vor]

Will try defragging, not sure if it'll work =(

Are there any utils that can force a sector table check?

 

[XylosKane]

I just had the same problem so heres what i found out.

I have norton system works installed and ran all the checks that i can and after having nothing work i tried emptying the recycle bin and also emptyed the protected files and got my 10.4 or so gigs back.

In short empty the protected files and you'll get the space back (if in fact it is norton that you have on your computer)

Hope that helps
Kane

 

[Doug117]