Previously malestrom <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hello.

> I would like to share I problem I encountered and hopefully I could get
> some help.I have an external hard drive,a Lacie Porsche design which was
> working flawlessly.

> I have Xp professional with Sp2 installed.It's a 500Gb external.I also
> have a 500 Gb Seagate external and yet another 500 Gb Lacie
> installed(not the Porsche design)

> Up to yesterday I had 200Gb or some, free now I have only 9Gb!!!

> I have only 1 folder installed,which is 273Gb.How can I have only 9Gb
> free?!

[...]

First I suspect that you actually mean GB, not Gb (which is 8 times
less).

It is possible that you actually have only 9GB left, beacues of
a large number of small files. The calculation that you have
more free by the disk check would then simply be wrong.

An other option is lost space due to a lost large file.
Checkdisk should usually find these and clean them up, but
with the usual MS quality level, it may also fail at this.

What in detail did you do in between havin 200GB free and
having 9GB free?

Arno

Arno Wagner wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed)
> Previously malestrom <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > Hello.
>
> > I would like to share I problem I encountered and hopefully I could get
> > some help.I have an external hard drive,a Lacie Porsche design which was
> > working flawlessly.
>
> > I have Xp professional with Sp2 installed.It's a 500Gb external.I also
> > have a 500 Gb Seagate external and yet another 500 Gb Lacie
> > installed(not the Porsche design)
>
> > Up to yesterday I had 200Gb or some, free now I have only 9Gb!!!
>
> > I have only 1 folder installed,which is 273Gb.How can I have only 9Gb
> > free?!
>
> [...]
>
> First I suspect that you actually mean GB, not Gb (which is 8 times
> less).
>
> It is possible that you actually have only 9GB left, beacues of
> a large number of small files. The calculation that you have
> more free by the disk check would then simply be wrong.

> An other option is lost space due to a lost large file.
> Checkdisk should usually find these and clean them up, but
> with the usual MS quality level, it may also fail at this.

Yeah, obviously can't be operator error.

> What in detail did you do in between havin 200GB free and
> having 9GB free?

Adding a gazillion very small files, of course. What a stupid question.

>
> Arno

malestrom wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed)
> @Stretch
>
> > And your problem is what exactly?
>
> So you don't think I have a problem?

I don't know, which is why I asked. Do you have a problem?

> Would you not have a problem or would you just leave it as it is?

That depends on whether there is a real problem or just a perceived one.

>
> I really don't understand your question.....

Is there only 9GB free space available or is there more. Which one is true.

How difficult can it be to test that when you have over 200 GB to test with.
Think man, use that grey matter.
Make a copy of that folder of yours and see whether it stops after 9GB
copied or that it just copies most all the way.
Then you know whether you have a real problem or just a perceived one.
If it all copies and you delete the copy it's quite possible that the percei-
ved problem has also gone away.

>
> @Arno Wagner
>
> Thank you for your reply!
>
> Sorry for the small "b" but since we are talking about external hard
> drives it's obvious it's GB.
>
> There is no lost file and I simply did nothing.

> I just turned it on and there was no more space.

That's not what you said earlier.
There was no evidence that you ever actually checked.

> I'm going to move everything to another hard
> disk and I'll make it NTFS from FAT32 first and if there is no
> recovering I'll format it and if still I can't recover all 465 GB then
> I'll throw it away.

> I simply posted this problem since this is a TECH forum and I was just
> trying to find an answer from someone who really knows since I'm no
> wizard on hardware.

But it's a software problem.

>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Chris

Previously malestrom <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
[...]
> Thank you for your reply!

> Sorry for the small "b" but since we are talking about external hard
> drives it's obvious it's GB.

> There is no lost file and I simply did nothing.I just turned it on and
> there was no more space.I'm going to move everything to another hard
> disk and I'll make it NTFS from FAT32 first and if there is no
> recovering I'll format it and if still I can't recover all 465 GB then
> I'll throw it away.

Hmm. Surprising indeed. I see an other possibility: You may have
removed it too fast or swithed it off to early and something in the
filesystem admin info got mangled. Chkdsk should find something like
this though. Did you ''safely remove'' the disk before or leave it
running while powering down the computer?

The last possibility I see, is a bug in the OS, plain and simple.
One test you can do (after backup) is to see how much data you can
put on the disk, before it refuses to take more. You would
then need to check whether all data is still ok, or whether
something was overwritten. Possibly not wiorth the effort, unless
the problem manifests itself again.

> I simply posted this problem since this is a TECH forum and I was just
> trying to find an answer from someone who really knows since I'm no
> wizard on hardware.

That is ok. There are just some trolls here. Disregard them.

> Thank you for your time.

No problem.

Arno