HELP!!! MY GIGS ARE MISSING!

[DuffmanOhYeah]

Hey Everyone, before you tear into me, I KNOW that this is off the off topic topic P) but I posted in Technical Support and have gotten nowhere. So anyway, if you wonderful geniuses (Im never above pandering) can find it in your merciful hearts, I sure could use your help.



<< Ok, so I was ripping a dvd today (dvd decrypter), and I accidentally (apparently) checked the box that lets me join the ripped vobs. Now it seems that I over-ran the 4 gig file limit for fat32, (Im running winXP pro by the way) and the space seems to have just disappeared. No files have been created, but I appear to be down by about 4 gigs? >>



Does anyone know whats going on and how to correct? Many thanks.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Maybe it created a temporary file somewhere, or a huge swapfile, and didn't remove it after the error occurred. Try checking the temporary dirs to start with.

 

[DanFungus]

did you try restarting, and then doing a file search for files larger than 100MB or something?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Also run a scandisk/chkdsk. It'll recover space if there are problems with wasted space.

 

[PsychoAndy]

OMG!!! OH NO! AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NOOOOOO!O!OO!O!!!!

i'm sorry but it just had to be said.

why dont you run a search on all files modded/created withinn the past day. that might pull up something

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

Yeah, I have rebooted, run scandisk, Norton Disk Doctor, checked for files over 10 megs...........nada. Its really weird. Like like the file was written, but never assigned a name or extension, laying waste to about 4 gigs of space. Needless to say I am both stumped and not too thrilled. Thanks for the ideas so far. Please keep them coming, no matter how simple they may seem. I really don't feel like kissing 4 gigs bye bye.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Ah running XP, no scandisk? Did you run chkdsk?

chkdsk /f

from the prompt. I have had this happen and can't remember off hand how it came back. Lost 2 gigs to something and did everything I could think of. Then poof, one day it was there again. Damndest thing.

Any chance it could be in that "system volume information" directory? I can't figure that thing out (I've never really researched it). I try to check it and it says 0 fiiles, 0 bytes. When I do a defrag it says there was several hundred megs in the directory that couldn't be moved. I assume this is backed up stuff, like old installations (like where you can revert to a previous date). Wasn't too big of a directory (I think I counted 250 megs) so I didn't worry about trying to erase it.

 

[gopunk]

hmm what does partition magic say (if you have it)?

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

<< hmm what does partition magic say (if you have it)? >>



Well, I just installed Part Magic 6 Pro, but I have never used it before. What exactly do I use to check?

 

[DanFungus]

Duffman....Can't breathe! OH no!

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

<< Duffman....Can't breathe! OH no! >>





Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem ---------------------------------> stupid 'puter

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

ANyone? Im still baffled, and now Im tired, which wouldn't be such a bad thing except that now kicking and chastizing seem to be growing in viability.

 

[gopunk]

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<< hmm what does partition magic say (if you have it)? >>



Well, I just installed Part Magic 6 Pro, but I have never used it before. What exactly do I use to check? >>



when you open it up, it should show you how your space is taken up... like all your partitions... what do you see?

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

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<< hmm what does partition magic say (if you have it)? >>



Well, I just installed Part Magic 6 Pro, but I have never used it before. What exactly do I use to check? >>



when you open it up, it should show you how your space is taken up... like all your partitions... what do you see? >>



Well, it lists my two drives, my C: which has 60% full (of 9 gigs) and my D: which has 33% full (of 60 gigs) To the D: drive, it tells me that I am using 21 gigs, when the tally of the files on that drive are near 15 gigs. Seem to be about 6 short.

 

[Smolek]

Get a directory display program and it will show you what folder/directory is using up that space, that may help

 

[tim0thy]

that's what you get for trying to rip a dvd... didn't you hear about the new dvd-copy protection that eats your gigs if you try to rip it?

i'm kidding by the way.

try doing a deltree of the directory you saved those vobs in.

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

Ok, I used Norton to "purge all" and apparently that has cleared up the missing 4 gig problem (looks like Norton was hiding it somewhere without telling me (windows either for that matter) for the fun of it). However, I STILL seem to be about 2 gigs shy.

Both Partition Magic and WIndows tell me that I am using 17.2 gigs of space on the D: drive, but a windows file total says I have only 15.3 gigs of data, taking up 15.7 gigs on disk. Well, quick math of 17.2-15.7 leaves me without 1.5 gigs.

Any takers?

 

[tim0thy]

empty out your recycle bin full of garbage?

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

F* ME IN THE GOAT ASS! Tried the same thing on my C: drove, and there is a LARGE discrepancy there as well. This one to the tune of 2.25 gigs. Am I going nuts? Missing something insanely obvious?

Duffman is about to go apesh*t and start winging feces at his box if it doesn't start couging up spme free space and fast.

 

[rgwalt]

<< F* ME IN THE GOAT ASS! Tried the same thing on my C: drove, and there is a LARGE discrepancy there as well. This one to the tune of 2.25 gigs. Am I going nuts? Missing something insanely obvious?

Duffman is about to go apesh*t and start winging feces at his box if it doesn't start couging up spme free space and fast. >>



Sweeet!!! Seriously though, have you defragmented lately? Try running a defrag and see if that frees up space. If you haven't in a while (esp if you do a lot of disk IO) then you could be eating up lots of free space.

Ryan

 

[tim0thy]

ah, screw it... you're SOL.

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

<< empty out your recycle bin full of garbage? >>



Yeah, done that on about 3 different levels. Rackafrackasumma...........

 

[MadRat]

Some spyware eats up space on your hard drive and renders it invisible forever.

Never fear, simply ghost to another drive and back and "viola!", it magically reappears.

 

[IGBT]

Gig tax.

 

[DuffmanOhYeah]

<< ah, screw it... you're SOL. >>


It appears I may be so.