hard drive storage question. updated.

[Fiveohhh]

I have a question. I have a 160gb drive here that I was backing up to another drive. When I right clicked the disk and went to properties it said there was 152 total and 100 free, and 50 or so used, so I cleared up 50 gigs on the other drive, but when I copied all the file in the drive over there was only 30gb. Why is there a 20 gig descripency(sp) between when I grab all the folders in the root, and when I get the properties from the drive?

updated:
Well I deleted every folder in the d drive, and it still shows 16gb is being used up, I search for * in hidden and system and it comes up with nothing. is it possible that something is taking this space up, that i can't find for some reason, or is it probably some odd fluke.

 

[Pariah]

The 160GB is probably NTFS while the backup drive is FAT32. NTFS uses disk space more efficiently than FAT32 with large drives.

 

[Fiveohhh]

They're both ntfs.. and my main concern is that while on 1 pc, you can right click the drive and its properties say its 49gb, and than you grab all the folders and files in the root, and it says its 29gb

 

[Pariah]

Did you unhide all system and hidden files? Is the file count between the 2 the same?

 

[Fiveohhh]

I can't get a file count by clicking on the drive(not sure if its possible, and I have view hidden and system files on, so it should copy them...right? I did search the drive for * and came up with 22000 and when I grab all the folders inthe root I get 12000, gonna look into it a little more..

 

[Fiveohhh]

buump for the update

 

[Pariah]

If there's a 10,000 file descrepancy, that's where your problem lies. Just look at the 2 drives, it should be obvious where all those files are missing on the backup.

 

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: Pariah
If there's a 10,000 file descrepancy, that's where your problem lies. Just look at the 2 drives, it should be obvious where all those files are missing on the backup.

well I deleted all the files I backed up off the original, i search for * and get 0 results, but yet windows says 16gb's is being used

 

[Pariah]

Run scandisk.

 

[Fiveohhh]

just thought of that too and its running now

 

[Fiveohhh]

Figured it out there was a folder called recycler that didn't show up(even when it was set to view hidden and system, I had the disk reindex, and and it said it couldn't access d:\recycler\blah\blah, so i typed d:\recycler in explorer and than it showed me what was in the folder. THanks for the help

 

[Pariah]

16GB in your recycling bin? Wow, that's a lot. Good to hear you figured it out.

 

[Fiveohhh]

I had emptied the recycle bin, it was some norton thing It installed when I had Norton a/v, and than when i uninstalled it, it decided to leave all the files it was protecting instead of deleting them woulda saved me alot of trouble had I known that