Where is all of my space going?

DaiShan

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I have a 6 gb hard drive running windows 98, I had downloaded a few large files onto it prior to getting a 27gb drive to accompany it. The 6gb is the primary master, and the 27gb is secondary master. I copied the files from the 6gb onto the 27 gb and deleted the files on the 6gb, this left me with around 3 gigs free on that drive, I have started downloading more files to the 27gb drive. I am using Flash Fxp as my FTP program, I tried to start 2 downloads, the first one started, the second one said there was not enough room on the drive (there was at that point around 20 gigs free) now the main drive says it has 400 megs left on it, and the 27gb drive says it is only using 100 mb of space even though one folder has 3 700 meg files in it. The files are not shortcuts, and I cannot find them on the main drive anywhere, I also cannot find where on the main drive all of this data is being stored, I have checked the size of each folder on the drive, one folder (program files)is a little over a gig, but beyond taht I can only account for around 2-3 gb on that drive. Does anyone know where the space is going? I have a feeling the files are first being saved to the 6gb drive then copied over to the 27gb, but I can't find where. Any help would be appreciated.
 

Jeff7

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I got stuff like that when I'd download files from the Internet - it would say that there was no disk space left, even though there was still like a Gig free. It might just be a miscount in the File Allocation Tables - try Scandisk/Norton Disk Doctor - hopefully it's just something simple like that.
 

GtPrOjEcTX

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sounds like fat at its worst... looks like the stuff your downloading is too large for your memory (read RAM) to hold, so its storing it on the primary drive before it copies it to its final destination...no real way to get around it that I know of, other than converting to NTFS, but can't do that in Win98.
 

DaiShan

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You were both right in a way, after posting this message I decided to run scandisk then defrag, after running scandisk and rebooting it fixed the problem, I noticed that a .chk file had been added to the 27gb drive, also the computer had only 64 megs of memory, the weird thing is, when I opened up the folders on the drives they spaces came out right, but when I just did drive properties it kept saying the 27gb had only 110 megs on it, when there was over 5 gbs.
 

Waveslidin

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Go to downloads.com and lookup TreeSize Professional. It is a nifty little tool that graphically shows you how your disk space is allocated and what is taking it up.