Hard Drive usage not displayed correctly

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Hello:
Can anyone help me? I noticed when I check properties under drive C: it
says that half (55GB) is used. When I select all files under C: and check
properties, it says that only 12GB is used. Does anyone know how i can fix
this? Would chkdsk will fix this? Would applying SP2 fix this? How about
doing an Win XP repair (from CD)? Thanks for any help!
 
Barb, open MyComputer>rt click your Hard Drive Icon>select
Properties>Disk Cleanup>More Options>System Restore>Cleanup. Say Yes and Ok
to all.
 
Hi,

Check the pagefiles and restore files settings.
Your restore files is set to 10% of the C drive capacity by default and the
pagefiles is 1.5 to 3 times of the physical memory on the DIMM slots.
It is quite safe to change the restore files size to not more than 500MB.


Peter
 
Thanks, Rich. I tried the System Restore>Cleanup, but it didn't fix the
problem. I also did the Office SP3, the WinXP SP2 install, and the OS
repair, but none of those fixed it. Any other ideas? I didn't even know
about that System Restore>Cleanup. I called Dell and they said to do a whole
system re-format/re-install and that it was probably spyware, but I ran
Adaware & Spybot and found next to nothing. They just gave me their patt
answer to everything I think. :)
 
Peter:
Thanks for your response. The restore settings were set at 12%, so I
changed them down to 5%, but that didn't seem to fix anything and page files
were in the range you specified. Any other ideas? Thanks!
 
Are your Folder (View) Options set to show hidden files and folders?

Hello:
Can anyone help me? I noticed when I check properties under drive C: it
says that half (55GB) is used. When I select all files under C: and check
properties, it says that only 12GB is used. Does anyone know how i can fix
this? Would chkdsk will fix this? Would applying SP2 fix this? How about
doing an Win XP repair (from CD)? Thanks for any help!
 
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