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Ever knew that 10 GB - 7 GB = 100 MB ? Now you know! Here are two screenshots. Now could anyone tell me what to do? Kaspersky does not find any viruses, Ad-Aware can't find adware, and Crap Cleaner can't find... crap. What can I do? Thanks!
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26-02-2007, 11:03 AM
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I don't really know about this, but disk space is not as ouright simple as you might think. Try defragmenting the drive, judging from your problem I bet it will free some space, but don't know how much.
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26-02-2007, 12:14 PM
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You should also run a diskcheck
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26-02-2007, 01:01 PM
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chkdsk? I ran it, but it told me at step 2 out of 3 that an unknown error has occurred and stopped scanning.
Edit: I did a defragment and was shocked to see a file located in Windows/Temp of 1.32 GB. I thought that Crap Cleaner removed it, so I didn't bother to look in temp. |
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26-02-2007, 01:59 PM
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Abi79 @ Feb 26 2007, 05:20 AM) [snapback]280997[/snapback]</div>
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Sounds like your allocation tables or MFT might be messed up. Is your partition formatted as NTFS or FATxx? When you ran the defrag it should have checked you disk for errors before it started. Did that tell you about any disk errors? Bad sectors? Try this. Go to control panel and click on administrative tools. Then select computer management. Then click on disk management and check to make sure that all your partitions are healthy. What size does it report the partition to be?
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26-02-2007, 02:10 PM
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26-02-2007, 08:03 PM
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i see you was checking size of selected files. maybe you didnt selet some "system hidden" and you have them hidden?
if it doesnt help try different browser than explorer to check drivesize in (or like geezer said, disk managment)
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27-02-2007, 02:45 AM
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Funny that I had the same problem. on my older pc. In the end I formatted as with that pc I don't bother looking to deeply into unknown problems.
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27-02-2007, 08:55 AM
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01-03-2007, 01:10 AM
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ Feb 27 2007, 10:55 AM) [snapback]281160[/snapback]</div>
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If you go to the command-prompt and place yourself in C:\> and write "Dir /ah/s" it should list the hidden files only. EDIT: Just did that on my primary drive with WinXP Home SP2, and it got to a total of 1.436.610.723 bytes (1.370 Mbyte) in just HIDDEN files..  There ya go my friend!
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