Help I've lost 15 gb :(

[aakerman]

I have my harddrive in three partitions... the second one, containing movies and music, occupies 29.3 out of 31.4 gb, according to windows (right click -> properties). But if I highlight everything on the drive, and then right click -> properties, it comes out to 14.6 gb.

So 14.7gb is missing somehow - how do I reclaim them? I've had this problem before, but back then,
it was the special recycle bin of norton antivirus, that held 15gb of deleted data. But I don't have norton on this machine - I don't have any AV software at all.
My recycle bin is set at 5%, so that can't be the problem.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.. using windows 2003 btw.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

are you missing any data..? if not..I wouldn't worry about any misreporting of sizes..

 

[Mark R]

If the partition is formatted in FAT, then this is may be 'slack space' - each file is allocated space on the disk in 'clusters', however in FAT the clusters can be up to 64 kB in size (so a 1 byte file needs 64 kB, and a 64.1 kB file needs 128 kB).

An alternative is that there are hidden files/folders e.g. system restore points, directory thumbnails, etc. which are taking up the space - enable viewing of hidden files and system files in explorer and try again.

 

[aakerman]

It's NTFS..

Scrap -> I'm not missing data... but I need those 15gb to store more files on :/

edit: ARGH wtf is wrong with anandtech today.. I get this "JRun Connector Protocol Error." nine out of ten times..

 

[aakerman]

It's NTFS..

Scrap -> I'm not missing data... but I need those 15gb to store more files on :/

edit: ARGH wtf is wrong with anandtech today.. I get this "JRun Connector Protocol Error." nine out of ten times..