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Would have been faster to do a backup of your files, wipe the partition, and reinstall fresh windows. 1 hour tops to do that. I assume you do not have multiple partitions for music/games/etc. I'd be a good idea to do that sometime so the backup process is faster. I never store anything I need on the OS partition so I can wipe it on a whim.
 
Not on my laptop no. My desktop, which I don't use, is set up like that lol. Windows partition, then there is supposed to be an installation partition which I fucked up when I redid my computer again, then a Videos partition for streaming and another partition for general storage.
I didn't even know my laptop could have free space. I was so used to space just disappearing I didn't think it was worth it to install windows 7 and partition the drive. Now I'm gunna clean my laptop up, back up my itunes and beat skyrim and Dragon Age 2 then just wipe it since everything else is backed up to my desktop if it's important.

Normally though ya, anything is wrong with my PC I wipe it and reinstall but itunes really screws me since I dunno how to back it up and keep my playcounts and stuff.
 
So finally finished deleting the files and now ran a disk check after a couple of reboots virus scans and deframenting. So I watched the disk check go and it says 3.7 million files processed. Now I know I deleted them, I have gotten the hard drive space back and ilmy defrag programs shows me at only 200k files now so why does disk check still show an old value?
 
Also, I dunno if this is just a Windows thing but I freed up my HD to have 110 gigs left. I'm down to 86. So 24 gigs of my HD space just disappeared. It has been slowly disappearing since I deleted all of those files but a disk analyze has shown that there is no mass accumulation of files again, I checked the folders and they are still empty, so does Window just phantom steal harddrive space?
 
tential said:
I checked the folders and they are still empty, so does Window just phantom steal harddrive space?
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I've seen it happen. 500GB portable HD I loaned to someone. They deleted all of the files off of it, before they returned it to me, but it showed that some number of GB were still used. Had to re-format the drive. Strange, I know, but sometimes, Windows does funny things.
 
Yes, this is crazy. I'm down to 79 gigs already and I have no noticeable jump in files. Windows really needs to step up with Windows 8 but most likely knowing them it will be a bust. Looks like I'll have to reformat. Losing 31 gigabytes of HD space with no file increase or anything downloaded is a huge problem they should probably look into fixing.

Only thing to do now is to beat skyrim and Dragon Age 2 then back my itunes up and my movies. Really wish HD prices would drop back down to what they were in september so I could buy my 2 TB HD with no regets.
 
Do you have system restore enabled? Checkpoints could be using that space. Try CCleaner and see what it says.
 
tential said:
Yes, this is crazy. I'm down to 79 gigs already and I have no noticeable jump in files. Windows really needs to step up with Windows 8 but most likely knowing them it will be a bust. Looks like I'll have to reformat. Losing 31 gigabytes of HD space with no file increase or anything downloaded is a huge problem they should probably look into fixing.

Only thing to do now is to beat skyrim and Dragon Age 2 then back my itunes up and my movies. Really wish HD prices would drop back down to what they were in september so I could buy my 2 TB HD with no regets.
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Side thought, Windows 7 uses shadow copies, I think it might be on as part of system restore (like mentioned above.) It would make sense that it would cause the disk usage to be "odd."
 
Try using agent ransack http://www.mythicsoft.com/page.aspx?type=agentransack&page=home

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I know it shows all files.
 
I had a problem very similar with a prgram I wrote. It stored about 4 million files in the same directory. I split the files into directories using the hash of the file, with the top folder being the first 2 of the hash, and the next level being the 2nd two. So instead of 1 folder, it was 1 top level folder and 256 folders under it which each had 256 folders. 65536 folders total + the top level.

I was unable to clean the top folder, and everything (including robocopy) sucked outloud for deleting them. I wrote a quick application in .net that ran a delete command 65536 times, each time using the first 4 of the file name (which were all hashes, so they were 0-9, A-F for 0000* though FFFF* were the commands). It took maybe 30 minutes to write the program and about 5 minutes to delete the files. It was highly specialized, and it looks like you have this solved, but if you were a programmer, I would have been happy to give it out so you could modify it for your need.
 
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