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30-10-2008, 01:49 PM
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Vanished free space? o.O
I have a strange problem. I was clearing up my unused files and clutter from my compy and I noticed I have a huge loss of free space on my drive C:\
My C: partition is 10 Gb. I highlighted all the files and the contents on the drive only weigh 6 Gb, but I only have 200 megs of free space according to explorer. I'm not very good at math, but even I know that 10 - 6 != 0.2 Here be photographic evidence (I captioned it for your non-hungarian folks):  Apparently, I lost 4 gigs of free space somehow. Before you say: - I emptied the recycle bin - I cleared clutter (temp, internet junk...etc) - No hidden files, I highlited them all - I don't use any drivespace programs - I don't have any third party disc management progs installed I have Norton System Works however, but I don't use it's disk features, never have. Oh, the Norton Protected Recycle bin is empty too. I really need that 4 gigs of space. Any ideas? 
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30-10-2008, 02:10 PM
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Chkdsk C: /f
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30-10-2008, 03:36 PM
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Thanks, but I tried that already, didn't help.
However, I managed to get back 2 gigs of that lost 4. I turned off the hibernation option in power saving. Also, I moved the pagefile (virtual memory) to the other partition, but that didn't do anything. On the virtual memory management screen it shows that the pagefile has been moved to the D:\ partition, but in TC I still see the pagefile on the C: and none on the D... curious... EDIT: I was sooo wrong. I was looking at the wrong drive, the H. The D partition has the pagefile, so I manually deleted the one from the C:, not I have 3.9 gigs of free space. Still need to snoop a little for system files. I really hope this maneuver won't crash my system...
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30-10-2008, 03:41 PM
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Did you reboot after moving the page file?
Also,did you check the System Restore function?
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30-10-2008, 06:08 PM
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try start->run Restore/rstrui.exe .. check if it's enabled, probably yes. it takes quite a space
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31-10-2008, 11:27 AM
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Thanks! The system restore function I need, saved my life a few times so it stays. Other than that I killed everything that takes up space, so I'm good for the time being.
Again, thx for the tipz!
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