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| Thread ID: 63548 | 2005-11-13 19:52:00 | Winodws XP Incorrectly Reporting Free Space | Gamesnmore (7422) | Press F1 |
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| 404180 | 2005-11-14 00:27:00 | Boy..going out on a limb here..but don't the temp files wind up in allocated spaces on the hdd? How are they gonna affect the freespace that cannot be seen? I always thought there was a limit set to a default value (at least, anyway) in an installation. If the system's XP, then it cleans house all the time..re-allocating space and deleting oldest files for the newest...right? Yes you are right. But as I have said before anyway, it has got nothing to do with files being there or not. The problem is that Windows is simply incorrectly displaying the amount of free space. earlier on we removed about 5 or 6 gb of stuff that was on the PC (movies, music etc), we emptied the recycle bin but windows still didn't update the amount of free space (in fact it decrease the amount of free space). The problem is not that we have too much stuff on the computer and want to find a way to get rid of it. It is that we want windows to correctly display the amount of Free Space that we have the computer. As said earlier I have added up the amount of used space using a calculator and it is a lot less than what Windows is saying we have used. |
Gamesnmore (7422) | ||
| 404181 | 2005-11-14 02:03:00 | Do you have the antivirus fully updated and with a clean run? Grandson found his hard drive overnight 99% full, outdated Penicillin had detected a couple of virus which it could'nt remove but it filled the Penicillin log. A minor point, running Everest Home Edition | Computer Summary | on a 120GB drive could show only about 112GB plus give info on free space. |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 404182 | 2005-11-14 02:35:00 | Possibly system restore files.. Dunno, does the O/S actually 'see' restore files?? | Myth (110) | ||
| 404183 | 2005-11-14 02:51:00 | You will always have a difference. If you have a 1KB file it may take up 4KB (default), or 32KB, 64KB, etc, depending of your sector size. Lots of these 1KB files may use up lots of 4KB sectors. This could explain differences. |
KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 404184 | 2005-11-14 03:47:00 | . . . . . . . . . . . and another thing . . . is the file system on NTFS or FAT32? It makes a difference too . But at this point I am going for the hdd having bad sectors or something . . . I believe the (erroneous) report of having "X" gig verses useable gig is maybe the 0-Sector reporting wrongly as you may not have run scandisk yet . (We used to call that the BAM ((bit area map)) I think . ) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 404185 | 2005-11-14 04:19:00 | Try this program to see a visual representation of your hard drive: www.snapfiles.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 404186 | 2005-11-15 01:48:00 | Suggest download freeware DiskPie2 from following. Lot quicker than fiddling around with a calculator. www.extremetech.com |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 404187 | 2005-11-15 10:55:00 | You might consider posting a HijackThis log in this thread as well, Gamesnmore. Have you tried defragmenting and "scandisking" your HDD under safe mode environment? Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 404188 | 2005-11-15 12:17:00 | Rip the HD out and shove it in a different machine either as a slave or USB external. Have a look then. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
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