wheres my 20GB gone?

[Guest]

i have vista ultimate

my computer has two physically separate hard drives. on my D drive it
displays in properties as 104GB used, but when i explore it and highlight all
contents, incl hidden files, and click properties it totals 81GB. Where's my
20GB gone?

gehan

 

[carl feredeck]

Da vista monster eats your drive...

it has restore points like XP, that are in a hidden folder..
but it also has "shadow copies" or your previous versions of files that are
also hidden...

you are selecting non hidden folders alone thats why you are not seeing the
correct size

 

[Guest]

i have selected view hidden folders in folder and file options so i should be
able to see them and account for it, shouldn't i?

 

[carl feredeck]

there is an option for SYSTEM FILES too that are hidden!!!

uncheck that too...

 

[Guest]

i cant see that, how do u do it?

there is an option for SYSTEM FILES too that are hidden!!!

uncheck that too...

 

[carl feredeck]

see this
http://images.jakeludington.com/camcorder/dvd/vista_hide_extensions.png
its the option under the one that s highlighted yellow

 

[Guest]

its still has the 20GB gap

see this
http://images.jakeludington.com/camcorder/dvd/vista_hide_extensions.png
its the option under the one that s highlighted yellow

 

[Spanky deMonkey]

You are such a piece of crap. You have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[Spanky deMonkey]

Again, such a piece of crap. Why don't you go back to the Junior High
School and wait in the gym. Douche Bag

 

[Spanky deMonkey]

You have your head placed firmly up your ass you maggot

 

[carl feredeck]

that would be frank you are talking about.....wait...you ARE frank!

such stupidity is unique

 

[Frank]

that would be frank you are talking about.....wait...you ARE frank!

such stupidity is unique

Careful carl, you're beginning to sound like a brain dead idiot.
You're not brain dread are you...not yet at least?
Frank

 

[Annie R J Brion]

i have vista ultimate

my computer has two physically separate hard drives. on my D drive it
displays in properties as 104GB used, but when i explore it and highlight all
contents, incl hidden files, and click properties it totals 81GB. Where's my
20GB gone?

I found that shadow copies created by a bug in Defrag were eating many
GBs on my D drive. I had lost over 100GBs

To solve this you need to reformat the drive with a cluster size or 32K
or more. I have also switched OFF system restore for my D Drive.

 

[huwyngr]

I'm told by people I respect that the only certain way to know how much
of the drive is actually used and how much is free is to run chkdsk.

Windows sometimes lies, believe it or not.