disc suddenly full after using boot manager

[Sam Samuels]

Hello

Prior to installing Acronis OS Selector in XP Pro I had a 120GB physical HD
used for data, Drive D, with about 25 GB space *used*.After installing
Acronis, windows (and other utilities) informed me I had only 10 MB
(Megabytes not even GB) left!Now Acronis did create a 15.7 Megabyte Hidden
Fat 32 OS Selector partition on the physical drive but where is the rest
gone? I have opened up D Drive and manually added up the contents in
folders= about 25 GB.I uninstalled Acronis and rebooted but still the same
"missing GB's"
Also D is now listed as an active primary (NTFS) boot partition but there is
nothing bootable on it?? (Partition magic partition info- and no i am not
using boot magic-was hoping acronis was going to be better)
Can anyone explain this and know how to fix?

Thank You

Sam

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

From a command prompt type the following to see how much disk space you have left:

dir /a/s

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| Hello
|
| Prior to installing Acronis OS Selector in XP Pro I had a 120GB physical HD
| used for data, Drive D, with about 25 GB space *used*.After installing
| Acronis, windows (and other utilities) informed me I had only 10 MB
| (Megabytes not even GB) left!Now Acronis did create a 15.7 Megabyte Hidden
| Fat 32 OS Selector partition on the physical drive but where is the rest
| gone? I have opened up D Drive and manually added up the contents in
| folders= about 25 GB.I uninstalled Acronis and rebooted but still the same
| "missing GB's"
| Also D is now listed as an active primary (NTFS) boot partition but there is
| nothing bootable on it?? (Partition magic partition info- and no i am not
| using boot magic-was hoping acronis was going to be better)
| Can anyone explain this and know how to fix?
|
| Thank You
|
| Sam
|
|

 

[Sam Samuels]

Will
Thanks for reply

This produced a result for C\Doc and settings (not D drive in question) with
about 25 GB free which is in accord with expectation

 

[Sam Samuels]

For those interested I moved all folders on D to a new drive (amounted to
25GB) which left the *empty* D drive showing 85GB used! I then quick
formatted D which made it truly empty again and moved back the 25GB of data.

Sam