Missing Hard Drive Space

2009-01-20 03:01:48

#1

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

Ok, so recently my XP hard drive has had some problems, all kinda my fault. I installed Windows 7 on a separate hard drive and got annoyed that it wouldthen always try to boot into 7 instead of XP, so I tried to install a boot manager. This BSOD'd on me, half way through leaving my XP then unbootable. I tried to figure out what was wrong, and out of nowhere I can get into it now.

But here's the main problem...

It's a 320GB hard drive. Windows only sees 298GB, which is fair enough, but it says it's basically full. At first it said it had abour 28MB free space.

The thing is... I only have about 120GB of stuff on it.

Here's my C drive with the folder's sizes labelled:

https://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/FFLink13/CScreen.jpg

Oops, forgot to label Windows. It's 3.87GB

Here's the hard drive in Disk management:

https://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/FFLink13/CMscreen.jpg

XP is the C:, and V: is Windows 7.

And here's the C's properties:

https://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/FFLink13/CPropertiesScreen.jpg

Now... Where the crap has my space gone? I know a reformat would probably fix it (Well I hope it would), but it's just hassle, you know? I wanna find out if there's anyway to sort this without doing that.

Cheers

Last edited by FFLink13 (2009-01-20 03:02:49)

2009-01-20 03:25:10

#2

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6718|The Twilight Zone

System restore enabled or disabled on that drive?

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2009-01-20 03:26:56

#3

Gawwad: My way or Haddaway!; +212|6950|Espoo, Finland

FFLink13 wrote:
It's a 320GB hard drive. Windows only sees 298GB, which is fair enough, but it says it's basically full. At first it said it had abour 28MB free space.

Windows sees every bit of that Hard drive. It's a marketing trick.
The hard drives size is about 320,000,000,000 bytes which is 298GB.
The manufacturers calculate the size dividing by 1000s instead of 1024 and that's where your GB's went.

2009-01-20 03:28:19

#4

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6892|UK

Gawwad wrote:
that's where your GB's went.

What you said is true, but it's not the answer to this problem.

Clearly he said that he only actually has ~130GB on the drive. As far as he knows ...

2009-01-20 03:31:15

#5

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

.Sup wrote:
System restore enabled or disabled on that drive?

Enabled as far as I know. Reckon I should give it a go?

2009-01-20 03:32:27

#6

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6718|The Twilight Zone

FFLink13 wrote:
.Sup wrote:
System restore enabled or disabled on that drive?
Enabled as far as I know. Reckon I should give it a go?

Disable it. Only have it enabled for you primary disk aka win installation disk.

2009-01-20 03:44:58

#7

Benzin: Member; +576|6263

If you add up system restore, pagefile and hibernate - none of that will all equal like 70GBs. Now unless your pagefile is set to an amazingly high number ... look into that.

2009-01-20 04:52:28

#8

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

I have 2GB of page file, turned down System restore to 200MB from 38GB, which has given me 7GB more space and I don't use hibernate...

So there's still something huge I'm missing.

2009-01-20 05:14:07

#9

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7031|Cambridge (UK)

(assuming you just have the built-in defragger)
Computer Management->Storage->Disk Defragmenter->Analyze...
Screeny...
Post...

please

(I want to see the funky 'disk usage' graph thing for your C: drive)

Last edited by Scorpion0x17 (2009-01-20 05:15:02)

2009-01-20 05:20:46

#10

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
(assuming you just have the built-in defragger)
Computer Management->Storage->Disk Defragmenter->Analyze...
Screeny...
Post...

please

(I want to see the funky 'disk usage' graph thing for your C: drive)

Defragged over the night and it did nothing. Shit load of apparent empty space.

But here's the screenshot anyway:

https://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/FFLink13/DefragScreen.jpg

2009-01-20 05:34:21

#11

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6892|UK

You took that screenshot after defragmentation?!

2009-01-20 05:35:46

#12

Benzin: Member; +576|6263

If that is a POST defragmented graph, then you need to format.

2009-01-20 05:36:07

#13

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

liquidat0r wrote:
You took that screenshot after defragmentation?!

No, just now, but like I said I did a defrag last night and it did shit all.

So yeah, I guess it was taken after a defrag...

CapnNismo wrote:
If that is a POST defragmented graph, then you need to format.

Would it not be worth trying to use a 3rd party defragger? The Windows one seems to suck...

Would a defrag sort my problem out?

Last edited by FFLink13 (2009-01-20 05:37:26)

2009-01-20 05:37:34

#14

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7031|Cambridge (UK)

FFLink13 wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
(assuming you just have the built-in defragger)
Computer Management->Storage->Disk Defragmenter->Analyze...
Screeny...
Post...

please

(I want to see the funky 'disk usage' graph thing for your C: drive)
Defragged over the night and it did nothing. Shit load of apparent empty space.

But here's the screenshot anyway:

8O

That is fubar.

You should indeed have more like 50% free space.

2009-01-20 05:39:22

#15

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
FFLink13 wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
(assuming you just have the built-in defragger)
Computer Management->Storage->Disk Defragmenter->Analyze...
Screeny...
Post...

please

(I want to see the funky 'disk usage' graph thing for your C: drive)
Defragged over the night and it did nothing. Shit load of apparent empty space.

But here's the screenshot anyway:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/ … Screen.jpg
8O

That is fubar.

You should indeed have more like 50% free space.

Exactly!

I mean, I haven't tried seeing what would happen if I went over my "Limit", so maybe it's just Windows lying.

I'll copy 20GB of shit over and see what happens.

2009-01-20 05:39:43

#16

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7031|Cambridge (UK)

FFLink13 wrote:
CapnNismo wrote:
If that is a POST defragmented graph, then you need to format.
Would it not be worth trying to use a 3rd party defragger? The Windows one seems to suck...

Would a defrag sort my problem out?

It's worth a try. Get defraggler and give that a go.

I've a feeling it's not gonna make any difference and a full re-format is in order, though.

2009-01-20 05:46:53

#17

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

Well, tried to copy stuff over and it stopped half way telling me I'm out of room.

I'll reformat the bitch.

2009-01-20 06:40:36

#18

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6646|the land of bourbon

probably the install of win7 fubar'ed it. i bet the headers for all the files are damaged or unreadable by the win XP install, but the space on the drive is being marked as used by the win7 files. i would checkdisk before the reformat, but reformatting will solve your problem.

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2009-01-20 11:21:43

#19

CrazeD: Member; +368|6938|Maine

FFLink13 wrote:
.Sup wrote:
System restore enabled or disabled on that drive?
Enabled as far as I know. Reckon I should give it a go?

Disable it, it's useless.

2009-01-20 13:03:28

#20

CrazeD: Member; +368|6938|Maine

jamiet757 wrote:
One word. System Restore.

Well, two words I guess.

Start>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup>Delete all but the most recent restore point.

Don't use it on the files if they say some ridiculous number of GB, it will delete system files. I had it happen once.

First off, system files aren't "ridiculous amount of GB", and second, disk cleanup will never delete system files...

But disk cleanup sucks, so download CCleaner.

2009-01-20 15:07:53

#21

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

CrazeD wrote:
jamiet757 wrote:
One word. System Restore.

Well, two words I guess.

Start>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup>Delete all but the most recent restore point.

Don't use it on the files if they say some ridiculous number of GB, it will delete system files. I had it happen once.
First off, system files aren't "ridiculous amount of GB", and second, disk cleanup will never delete system files...

But disk cleanup sucks, so download CCleaner.

Ran CCleaner with all options ticked and it said I get only 481MB free if I did it.

2009-01-20 17:31:27

#22

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6956|Devon, England

jamiet757 wrote:
FFLink13 wrote:
CrazeD wrote:

First off, system files aren't "ridiculous amount of GB", and second, disk cleanup will never delete system files...

But disk cleanup sucks, so download CCleaner.
Ran CCleaner with all options ticked and it said I get only 481MB free if I did it.
Disk Cleanup. You have to delete the system restore points, or turn off system restore all together.

Disk Cleanup was the first thing I tried.

Saved me a few gigs, but not the missing 150 or so.

2009-01-20 17:39:44

#23

Gawwad: My way or Haddaway!; +212|6950|Espoo, Finland

liquidat0r wrote:
Gawwad wrote:
that's where your GB's went.
What you said is true, but it's not the answer to this problem.

Clearly he said that he only actually has ~130GB on the drive. As far as he knows ...

I know that wasn't his problem but why not explain it to him anyway?

2009-01-20 18:49:55

#24

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7031|Cambridge (UK)

Gawwad wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
Gawwad wrote:
that's where your GB's went.
What you said is true, but it's not the answer to this problem.

Clearly he said that he only actually has ~130GB on the drive. As far as he knows ...
I know that wasn't his problem but why not explain it to him anyway?

Because it's not helping solve the problem, mebe?

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