Unable to recover disk space

[Gerry]

Having trouble with my non-system SATA 250 gig hard drive. I use it to
store music, photos, movies and such. The drive says it is full, although
when deleting gigs worth of files my free space does not increase. Defrag
does nothing and scanning for errors finds nothing. Seems to be a problem
with the FAT table allocating my free space (formatted NTFS). Incidentally,
this has happened to me before and I had to reformat. Now I do not have the
room on another drive to back-up this problem drive. Anyone come across
this problem or knows a fix (besides reformatting)?

 

[NewScience]

When deleting GBs of files, you are emptying your Recycle Bin after ...
correct?

 

[neil]

You could try a disk cleanup and remove all but the last restore point for
that drive.

Neil

 

[Rick Rogers]

and, if applicable, Norton Protected Bin.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[NewScience]

You cannot remove System Restore points based on drives. If you remove all
but the last restore point, you remove for the entire system ... all drives.

 

[Rock]

Having trouble with my non-system SATA 250 gig hard drive. I use it to
store music, photos, movies and such. The drive says it is full, although
when deleting gigs worth of files my free space does not increase. Defrag
does nothing and scanning for errors finds nothing. Seems to be a problem
with the FAT table allocating my free space (formatted NTFS).
Incidentally, this has happened to me before and I had to reformat. Now I
do not have the room on another drive to back-up this problem drive.
Anyone come across this problem or knows a fix (besides reformatting)?

You should always have a full and complete backup of important data. Data
loss does occur from time to time. What if the drive dies, for instance?
Can you afford to loose all that data? By not having a backup you are
saying, in effect, I don't care if I loose it all.

 

[neil]

OK, I didn't realise the disk cleanup section of a drive affected all drives
when using "remove all but the last resore point". But I guess it could
still free up some space.??

Neil