Missing hard drive space

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Hello,

Yesterday I was using winrar to unzip a file when my computer crashed. When I restarted the computer 30GB were missing from my HD. The HD is supposed to be able to store 80GB and eventhough I only have 50GB on the disk windows says that the disk is full.

The HD that is missing space isn't the one where my OS is installed.

Has this happened to anybody else?

Thank you!

[bbeard67]

Try treesize a freeware program that can show folder size incliuding all sub folders. it will add a right click option called treesize to explorer.

Right click on the drive letter and click treesize to see which folders are using up the space

I use this program often when doing spring cleaning on my PC

There is a screenshot of the application below as well
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

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Thank you for the reply!

I tried treeSize and it thinks that the HD is 50GB and because of that it is full. Worked better then explorer atleast which invents 30GB extra...

Another strange thing is that when I delete something from the drive I don't get any more free space.

Edit: I tried to delete some files again and this time I got some more free space.

[bbeard67]

Some things that can cause incorrect disk space

http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

[CVC]

Thank you. I will check it out in a bit. Used Diskeeper and saw that the HD was 67% fragmented. Maybe it wil help to defrag it a bit.

I have one more question. About 10% of the space on the disk is labeled 'Reserved System'. Is this normal?

Thank you!

[bbeard67]

probably system restore files

[pip22]

"Another strange thing is that when I delete something from the drive I don't get any more free space."

If your deleted files go into the recycle bin, Windows doesn't show the space occupied by those files as additional free space until you empty the bin.

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Thanks for the help but the hd seems to be working fine now. I just removed about 2GB of space and got back 30GB (which is kind of strange). Then I defraged the drive and now it works fine again.