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1Dark1Sharigan1

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Hi, I've got a problem with one of my hard disk partitions. When I click on the drive, it says that I only have 1.8 GB of space left on that partition but when I select all the files and folders on the drive it only shows 17.4GB. It's a 25GB partition. What happened to the rest?

Any help would be be appreciated, thanks (again, Hard Drives = not my specialty :p)

Oh and the filesystem is FAT32 (yeah I know FAT sux, but I didn't want to mess with it)
 
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MustISO

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Make sure you have the latest BIOS. Make sure you have SP4 installed. Go on Microsoft's website and look for the large drive patch.
 
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1Dark1Sharigan1

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Originally posted by: MustISO
Make sure you have the latest BIOS. Make sure you have SP4 installed. Go on Microsoft's website and look for the large drive patch.
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I have Windows XP Pro SP2 . . .
 
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MustISO

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Sorry. I confused your post with another one. What motherboard do you have? Did you change any jumpers on the hard drive?
 
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1Dark1Sharigan1

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Originally posted by: MustISO
Sorry. I confused your post with another one. What motherboard do you have? Did you change any jumpers on the hard drive?
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It's the one in my first rig, Neo4-F. Also don't think it's a physical drive error since this only happens with this particular partition. Though it is my system partition . . .
 
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1Dark1Sharigan1

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More info on this, some weird stuff started to happen just before the drive read 1.8GB free. First I got a "low disk space" warning on my taskbar for that partition and I checked it and saw that it only had like 200 MB left. Now, I know it read at least 4.5 GB free just about the last time I checked (which was like an hour ago) Then something even stranger happened. I started refreshing the explorer window and my status bar showed that the free space in that partition increased, then decreased, then increased. So I opened up Task manager and saw that NO32Kernal was taking up some CPU, so I ended it and that seemed to end the constant change in free disk space. So now it shows 1.8GB free. Could NOD32 be the cause?
 
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Nod seems to be your anti virus.. you may have spyware or something else on that system
 
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1Dark1Sharigan1

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Originally posted by: Vegito
Nod seems to be your anti virus.. you may have spyware or something else on that system
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Well I have Microsoft Antispyware installed as well. I'll run a check just in case . . .

Oh and UPDATE: So apparently it has to do with Firefox causing my NOD32KRN.exe to start using up CPU and filling up disk space . . . weird indeed . . .
 
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imported_andro

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I had this same problem a couple of years ago, and not knowing how to reclaim my hard drive space, I reinstalled everything. But after it hapened again with the new installation, I tried a couple of things and it seemed to work. Try couple of things if you havent figured out a solution yet:
- Do a disk cleanup
- Run the defragmenter. Some times when the file is deleted from the system, for some wierd reason, the file handles may not be updated with the windows table,
- If the above two steps dont work for you, then you might try partition magic or something. (If you already partitioned the harddrive then slight allocating space between the two drives might help). Else create a new partition, it rewrites the partition tables and recalculates all the valid file handles.
 
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imported_goku

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Originally posted by: MustISO
Make sure you have the latest BIOS. Make sure you have SP4 installed. Go on Microsoft's website and look for the large drive patch.
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I doubt SP4 is going to change anything when the OP is dealing with 30GB HDDs. What I think the OP needs to do is to backup his data to something and run a scan disk. I have a feeling that the Free Space is being reported incorrectly causing this discrepancy.
 
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1Dark1Sharigan1

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Originally posted by: goku
I doubt SP4 is going to change anything when the OP is dealing with 30GB HDDs. What I think the OP needs to do is to backup his data to something and run a scan disk. I have a feeling that the Free Space is being reported incorrectly causing this discrepancy.
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Well it's actually a 250GB IDE HD. But the system partition is only 25GB.

Yeah, I did run scandisk in windows and it didn't find any errors. However, when I try and run defragmenter, it keeps telling erroring, saying that it can't continue because some files on my drive are corrupt.

I do have my system backed up to a USB 2.0 HD but I would prefer not having to restore it . . . I'll try running scan disk at start up and see if that does anything . . .

Also if it is virtual memory, how would I go about fixing it?
 
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imported_goku

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OP, you said you have this drive partitioned, what is on the rest of the drive? Is it WinXP or just a data partition? Do you have windows 98 on this computer? So you ran a checkdisk right before it booted into windows?
 
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1Dark1Sharigan1

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Originally posted by: goku
OP, you said you have this drive partitioned, what is on the rest of the drive? Is it WinXP or just a data partition? Do you have windows 98 on this computer? So you ran a checkdisk right before it booted into windows?
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WinXP is installed in the partition in question and the rest of the drive is divided into two partitions, one for games, and one for data. I'm running checkdisk right now.

Hmm, Space Monger looks interesting, I'll try it out once checkdisk finishes and Windows loads . . .
 
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1Dark1Sharigan1

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Space Monger is awesome indeed. I used it and found out that NOD32 had two huge temp files (totaling over 3 gigs) So deleted those files and also some files in the recycled bin. I now have 6 GB of free disk space . . . thanks y'all . . . :D
 
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Bozo Galora

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yeah, I use NOD32 too, but 3 GIGS!! Thats a lot of temp stuff. The whole app is only 8.2MB
And if you want windows to keep pagefile to a certain size, just go to performance tab in system, virtual memory and set it ot 512 MIN 512MAX or whatever

also part of lost space is restore allocation - defaults to about 800mb
 
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