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Old 09-12-2004, 02:23 PM   #1
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I've got a bit of a mystery with my HD. Clicking on properties for C: (my one and only partition) lets me know that my disk has a capacity of 38,3 Gb, that 37,2 Gb are used up, and that I've got 1,1 Gb of free disk space.

The weird thing is that when I select everything on the partition and view properties, it says it only takes up about 30 Gb. Now where the heck are my remaining 7,2 Gigabytes? I used the built-in maintenance function to free up disk space, set the Explorer Folder Properties to show hidden files and folders and unchecked the "Hide protected system files" option, prior to doing this check, so hidden files shouldn't be the problem here. I'm guessing it's just a huge pile of junk files that has been allowed to grow uninterrupted for years because Windows can't touch them.

Now I'm wondering if anyone else has any idea where my 7,2 Gb of disk space has gone, or know of a good program for doing more thorough disk clean-ups?
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Old 09-12-2004, 02:28 PM   #2
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I've got a bit of a mystery with my HD. Clicking on properties for C: (my one and only partition) lets me know that my disk has a capacity of 38,3 Gb, that 37,2 Gb are used up, and that I've got 1,1 Gb of free disk space.

The weird thing is that when I select everything on the partition and view properties, it says it only takes up about 30 Gb. Now where the heck are my remaining 7,2 Gigabytes? I used the built-in maintenance function to free up disk space, set the Explorer Folder Properties to show hidden files and folders and unchecked the "Hide protected system files" option, prior to doing this check, so hidden files shouldn't be the problem here. I'm guessing it's just a huge pile of junk files that has been allowed to grow uninterrupted for years because Windows can't touch them.

Now I'm wondering if anyone else has any idea where my 7,2 Gb of disk space has gone, or know of a good program for doing more thorough disk clean-ups?
Is that Windows 98? Try scandisk, it can fix those hard drive problems. I had some of them sometimes back then.
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Old 09-12-2004, 02:32 PM   #3
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Is that Windows 98? Try scandisk, it can fix those hard drive problems. I had some of them sometimes back then.
Ah, no. Should've mentioned, it's Windows XP.
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Old 09-12-2004, 02:35 PM   #4
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Well I have sort of the same and a friend whom I helped installing a HD said it might be I have the jumpers set to limit the HD space to 30-32 GB. Did you install it yourself and could this be it?

I'm not sure and I haven't looked at it myself as I'm too lazy to open my PC
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Old 09-12-2004, 03:20 PM   #5
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That's called cluster loss. The thing is, you have two types of sizes; the data size and on-disc size. A file 500KB large on a dist which has a cluster assignment of 400KB(example) will take up 800KB of space. That's why you lose 7GB. You must have a tonne of small files, or unused folders or other small stuff, because only one file can take up a cluster, it cannot be shared.
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Old 09-13-2004, 02:35 AM   #6
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Or when your Windows XP was set up the partition wasn't set up to be the whole drive. EG they made it 36 GB instead of 37.

Try getting something like partition magic, it can help you resize and recreate partitions without loosing data.

EDIT: Also how big is your windows swap file ? you may not be able to see it but its taking up space. Same with your registry.

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Old 09-13-2004, 03:04 AM   #7
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Also, Windows does very wierd things with your disk space. It puts on files that you will never be able to see, no matter how much you do, which take up more disk space than they should. You will always loose some disk space like this, no matter how well you defrag your drive. But defrag and scan disk should take your losses down by a few kilobytes...
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