Space Missing from my partitions??

[lupin]

I have two partitions that are missing disk space.

One partition is ~5GB. There is only 200MB of space left, yet all the files on that drive is only ~3GB in size (windows explorer, select all, properties)

Same thing in the other partition. a 4GB with only 200MB of space left, whereas the all files are only ~2GB in size.

Anybody know what's wrong?? I'm using windows XP pro. All drives are in NTFS. I specified a scsi partition for the pagefile, yet when I open that partition, I don't see any pagefile.

 

[TheCorm]

Could be a virus?

Also, run a scandisk, sometimes it can fix if windows is reporting free space incorrectly.

May as well get a good defragment going too.

Jamie

 

[AndyHui]

You want to check that Hidden and System files are not hidden from Explorer.

 

[nickaskew]

Hi

- Both the figures you give could be 2000, not 200MB, are you sure it is 200 MB and not 2000MB (2GB)? Click on start/run and type CMD, then type DIR, it will show you a more accurate display of free bytes on your drive... count the zero's!

- I presume you aren't using disk quotas?

- Are you storing 1000's of folders and small files (less than the size of your NTFS default sector size?) - You say you specified a SCSI drive for your partition.. what size did you set the SECTOR size to be? 4kb? 16, 32, 64kB? - This denotes how much disk space a file that only has 1 byte in it will take up..

- do you have system and hidden files set up as VISIBLE within explorer?

- XP should show you the USED space and ACTUAL space taken up by files.. how big a difference is there? how many files on each drive?

Regards

Nick

 

[lupin]

ok-- this is weird

-- I ran scandisk- no errors

-- the free space IS only 200MB. even from CMD > DIR

-- I guess my sector size for the SCSI drive is default. I didn't do anything to it. Even then, the other partition that is also having the same problem is an IDE.

-- Yes I definitely have system and hidden files shown on explorer.

-- I did notice the ACTUAL and USED space difference. I don't think it's that though.