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themainman62 · 04-09-2007, 06:37 PM

Ok, I've Unchecked hide operating system protected files and already had it set to show hidden files, The HDD is one big partition with 186.31GB total. When I select all the files inside the G: drive (Highlight all files and folders) it comes up with 85.6 GB used total, however when viewed from the HDD Properties screen it says I only have 83.7 GB free, or about 102 GB are being used. I deleted about 17 GB of Downloaded files and there was little space recovered after that, prob no more than 2 GB. This is my secondary HDD, don't know if that could possibly be the cause of this.

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themainman62 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 13 OS: XP	Re: After Deletion of files HDD space not fully recovered Ok, I've Unchecked hide operating system protected files and already had it set to show hidden files, The HDD is one big partition with 186.31GB total. When I select all the files inside the G: drive (Highlight all files and folders) it comes up with 85.6 GB used total, however when viewed from the HDD Properties screen it says I only have 83.7 GB free, or about 102 GB are being used. I deleted about 17 GB of Downloaded files and there was little space recovered after that, prob no more than 2 GB. This is my secondary HDD, don't know if that could possibly be the cause of this. Last edited by themainman62; 04-09-2007 at 06:39 PM.