Hard Drive Free Space

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After adding over 650 MB of files to hard drive windows is still reporting
100 g of free space.I have a 226 g hard drive with NTFS file system.My OS is
WINXP Media Center Edition 2005.(WIN XP PRO).
Is there a way to fix this problem
 
What problem? 650MB is a drop in the bucket to a 250GB hard disk.
 
Joe

640 mb is less than 1 gb ( =1,000 mb )!

To investigate how you are using hard disk space you need to make sure that
you can see all files. Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View,
Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden files and
folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files " is
unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You should
also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known file types"
is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View, Details is selected
and then select View, Choose Details and check before Name, Type, Total
Size, and Free Space.

You still will not see the System Volume Information folder.
How to Gain Access to the System Volume Information Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309531

FileSize -a useful tool for use with Windows Explorer when investigating how
disk space is being used.
http://markd.mvps.org/

The download link is not obvious. Click the here in the two sentences of the
web page accessed through the link above. "I can't count the number of times
someone has asked for this. So here is a module you can install that shows a
Folder Size column in Explorer."


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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That's because your O/S is not calculating it's measurement by the
byte.
650Mb is just more than half of a Gb.
In order for you to see your 100Gb free space disapear you would have
to transfer, to your HD, more than 1Gb of data.
 
Ok let me see if i can get someone to understand.I can view hidden
files,system files and restore files.Secondly i've turned off system restore
and turned it back on.With no change in free space countThis problem appeared
yesterday. After deleting some video files.Since then i've installed and
added over 5g of data to disk.
 
Joe

Are you using any Norton software?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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