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Thread ID: 64197	2005-12-06 23:39:00	Harddrive Problem	ruup (1827)	Press F1

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410786	2005-12-06 23:39:00	Hi,I have a 20gig hardrive which after a 'crash' has gone from 60% full to 97% full,how do I regain my empty space?I have disabled system restore which has given some of it back,but I would like to have all of it back.I'm running XP with service pack 2,any help would be appreciated,as I don't want to have to format. cheers ruup	ruup (1827)
410787	2005-12-06 23:55:00	defrag it	Prescott (11)
410788	2005-12-07 00:07:00	And use ccleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com) to get rid of the temp files etc on it.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
410789	2005-12-07 00:08:00	defrag it XP won't defrag with any less than 15% free space if windows is only reporting 3% it won't do it Defragging won't remove excess files anyway it only rearranges them What sort of "crash" was it? Has Windows blocked access to bad sectors and reduced the drives size? Run disk cleanup, ccleaner to rid the OS of uneccessary files	bartsdadhomer (80)
410790	2005-12-07 00:41:00	Thanks for the replies,i should add that this is the second time this has happened and that the harddrive has some bad sectors that did not disappear when I last did a reinstall of XP 4 weeks ago.Looks like I will have to do another format. cheers ruup	ruup (1827)
410791	2005-12-07 00:44:00	I would get another hdd, as u may have more probs later, with the bad sectors.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
410792	2005-12-07 01:07:00	i should add that this is the second time this has happened and that the harddrive has some bad sectors that did not disappear when I last did a reinstall of XP ruup 2nd time?....take a hint, it's knackered. bad sectors don't "disappear" they are still there, the OS blocks them off and won't write to them Once a drive develops bad sectors, it will keep getting more Sometimes the drive may last for ages, othertimes it may last a day or less Time for a new one	bartsdadhomer (80)
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