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HELP I'm shrinking!!!!

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skeletor

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Well not me, my harddrive. I'm typing this on my laptop which has a 6gb HDD. Recently it's gone slightly strange, in that the HDD space seems to bounce around like crazy.

For example: Today I decide to burn the 480meg directory of downloads I have, onto a CD cause the HDD had only 200meg left. So I burn it, delete the directory from my HDD and instead of 200+480=680 my HDD tells me: "You had 200 meg, you freed 480meg, you now have.... SURPRISE 415meg!

So I think, lost clusters or windows going nutty. I run Norton Disk Doctor 2002 and sure enough it says "Lost clusters, windows incorrectly reporting this drive's free space etc". I think YAY! and tell NDD to fix those problems.

NDD says everything is fine and dandy so I check my free space.

My HDD tells me: You had 415meg, you fixed my craziness, so in return you now have: 350meg!

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!

I've scanned the disk, defragged the disk, surface scanned it three times on three different settings and it still is losing space. I should have over 1gig considering what I've deleted.

Some specs: 650 celeron, 192 meg ram, 6gig HDD, Windows ME (don't suggest changing, no choices at the moment), on start up I run:
Norton Anti Virus 2001 (up to date), Zone Alarm 3 pro and Windows messenger (which I close after booting).

Is my drive dying or can I do something to find out where this free space is going?

Please help!!
 
Delete the lost clusters. Unfortunately, after you've had some lost, your OS is likely to be corrupt... You need to reinstall anyway.
I suggest you repartition, reformat the drive and reinstall. If after that it will still act strange it will be apparent that it's dying.
 


<< Have you emptied the recycle bin? >>



Yes. Everytime I go to Drive C: and hit F5 to refresh the free space it's changing.
Are laptop HDDs difficult to fit yourself?
 


<< Are laptop HDDs difficult to fit yourself? >>



I think they're pretty much the same HDs as desktop ones, only smaller and more reliable. If I were you, I'd reinstall. When I was using ME, I had to reinstall every couple of months (for some reason everything was getting screwed up gradually). I just didn't have a good luck with ME. The only way to get rid of the problem is a clean install, IMO.
 
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