deleting files doesn't free disk space

[Richard]

I captured some video to my hard disk, using almost all
its remaining capacity of about 25Gb. When I later
deleted the file by moving it to an external drive using
Explorer, the feee disk space properties on my hard drive
didn't change, regardless of full diagnostics and
defraging I can't find the reason or fix the problem so I
only have 20 MB left effectively.

Can anyone suggest a solution, short of reformatting
which I really don't want to do right now.

thanks

Richard

 

[Chris]

Do a full disk search for the filename that is taking
space, it is probably copied to a temp file somewhere. If
that doesn't work do a search for all files with that
extention (ex. *.mpg) and find the one that is taking all
the space.

Hope this helps
Chris

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

You didn't say if you emptied the recycle bin. If you have Norton on your
system, you have to empty it in 2 different areas.