Missing HD space

Nogard · 12-01-2005, 10:46 PM

Oddly this last month my little 10GB HD now appears as a 6.81GB HD and my 120GB slave drive appears as a 111GB HD. Any ideas what happened or where I can look to see what the mysteriously missing 12GB is being used for?

0578dv · 12-02-2005, 08:51 AM

Have you run a disk clean up in a while? If not you could clean out the temporary files, recycle bin files and older restore points all of which take up space. If you have Norton protected, that could be taking up room. After the cleanup, run scandisk and defragment your HDD to prevent slow down.
Here's a utility which is supposedly good to tell you whats taking up HD space.
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

Chevy · 12-02-2005, 09:04 AM

The drive size as advertised is the unformatted capacity ... A 120GB drive showing as 111GB is normal for an NTFS format, the 10GB reporting 6.81 is off, in my book.

Right-click on My Computer and select manage. In the left pane choose Disk Manager. Look in the right pane and see if the 10GB drive has more than one partition.

DarX1de · 12-02-2005, 01:54 PM

Also try WinDirStat, it gives a nice little map after it runs

http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/

Nogard · 12-03-2005, 03:06 PM

Thanks for the replies
I have run defrag on the disks bafore this post

Chevy hmm

Interesting ... Disk Manager shows 1 partition on my 120GB HD and 2 partitions now on my 10GB although last month it did appear as a 10BG HD. I have not run any partition software after installing this OS.

Disk Management
C: Partition Basic Fat32
Basic 9.32GB Online
6.82GB Fat32 Healthy (system)
2.48GB Unallocated

D: Partition Basic NTFS
Basic 111.79GB Online
111.79GB Healthy (active)

Chevy · 12-03-2005, 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nogard

Thanks for the replies
I have run defrag on the disks bafore this post

Chevy hmm

Interesting ... Disk Manager shows 1 partition on my 120GB HD and 2 partitions now on my 10GB although last month it did appear as a 10BG HD. I have not run any partition software after installing this OS.

Disk Management
C: Partition Basic Fat32
Basic 9.32GB Online
6.82GB Fat32 Healthy (system)
2.48GB Unallocated

D: Partition Basic NTFS
Basic 111.79GB Online
111.79GB Healthy (active)

Ok ... doesn't look out of whack at all .... Drive 1 is (6.82 + 2.48) 9.3GB, drive 2 is 111.79GB ...

So, where did the unallocated space on Drive 1 come from?

12-01-2005, 10:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
Nogard Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 3 OS: Win 2k	Missing HD space Oddly this last month my little 10GB HD now appears as a 6.81GB HD and my 120GB slave drive appears as a 111GB HD. Any ideas what happened or where I can look to see what the mysteriously missing 12GB is being used for?

12-02-2005, 08:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
0578dv Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 91 OS: XP	Have you run a disk clean up in a while? If not you could clean out the temporary files, recycle bin files and older restore points all of which take up space. If you have Norton protected, that could be taking up room. After the cleanup, run scandisk and defragment your HDD to prevent slow down. Here's a utility which is supposedly good to tell you whats taking up HD space. http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

12-02-2005, 09:04 AM	#3 (permalink)
Chevy Retired Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Notlob Posts: 5,452 OS: Vista Ultimate My System	The drive size as advertised is the unformatted capacity ... A 120GB drive showing as 111GB is normal for an NTFS format, the 10GB reporting 6.81 is off, in my book. Right-click on My Computer and select manage. In the left pane choose Disk Manager. Look in the right pane and see if the 10GB drive has more than one partition.

12-02-2005, 01:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
DarX1de Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Southwest Virginia Posts: 14 OS: Dual Boot XP Pro/Mandriva 10	Also try WinDirStat, it gives a nice little map after it runs http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/

12-03-2005, 03:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
Nogard Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 3 OS: Win 2k	Thanks for the replies I have run defrag on the disks bafore this post Chevy hmm Interesting ... Disk Manager shows 1 partition on my 120GB HD and 2 partitions now on my 10GB although last month it did appear as a 10BG HD. I have not run any partition software after installing this OS. Disk Management C: Partition Basic Fat32 Basic 9.32GB Online 6.82GB Fat32 Healthy (system) 2.48GB Unallocated D: Partition Basic NTFS Basic 111.79GB Online 111.79GB Healthy (active)