HDD full but shouldn't be??

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Ed H

I have a 150GB external HDD. I use it mostly for images created by IFW. I
can only count about 70 GBs being used but Windows is warning me that there
is only 13.8 GBs left. I also noticed, setting my folder options to see
system files there're hidden folders/ $RECYCLE>BIN, RECYCLER and System
Volume Info. all are non-accessible. ??

Thank you
 
M

mikeyhsd

do a cleanup and use the advanced option to delete all but the last restore point.
on that drive.

mikeyshd



I have a 150GB external HDD. I use it mostly for images created by IFW. I
can only count about 70 GBs being used but Windows is warning me that there
is only 13.8 GBs left. I also noticed, setting my folder options to see
system files there're hidden folders/ $RECYCLE>BIN, RECYCLER and System
Volume Info. all are non-accessible. ??

Thank you
 
P

pebble

How do you do that sig mikeyshd?


do a cleanup and use the advanced option to delete all but the last restore point.
on that drive.

mikeyshd



I have a 150GB external HDD. I use it mostly for images created by IFW. I
can only count about 70 GBs being used but Windows is warning me that there
is only 13.8 GBs left. I also noticed, setting my folder options to see
system files there're hidden folders/ $RECYCLE>BIN, RECYCLER and System
Volume Info. all are non-accessible. ??

Thank you
 
E

Ed H

Thanks but that didn't seem to do anything.
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP2
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD


do a cleanup and use the advanced option to delete all but the last restore point.
on that drive.

mikeyshd



I have a 150GB external HDD. I use it mostly for images created by IFW. I
can only count about 70 GBs being used but Windows is warning me that there
is only 13.8 GBs left. I also noticed, setting my folder options to see
system files there're hidden folders/ $RECYCLE>BIN, RECYCLER and System
Volume Info. all are non-accessible. ??

Thank you
 
M

Michal Kawecki

Dnia Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:41:16 -0400, Ed H napisa³(a):
I have a 150GB external HDD. I use it mostly for images created by IFW. I
can only count about 70 GBs being used but Windows is warning me that there
is only 13.8 GBs left.

Check filesystem on that disk, from GUI, or with cmd command chkdsk /f
I also noticed, setting my folder options to see
system files there're hidden folders/ $RECYCLE>BIN, RECYCLER and System
Volume Info. all are non-accessible. ??

It's normal. You don't have enough NTFS permissions to open those
folders. You can, if you run anything as SYSTEM user, for ex. with
psexec.exe from Sysinternals. Preferably Total Commander, but a free
WinDirStat show you almost everything.
 
M

mikeyhsd

use front page express, the marquee effect is one of its options.


mikeyshd



How do you do that sig mikeyshd?


do a cleanup and use the advanced option to delete all but the last restore point.
on that drive.

mikeyshd



I have a 150GB external HDD. I use it mostly for images created by IFW. I
can only count about 70 GBs being used but Windows is warning me that there
is only 13.8 GBs left. I also noticed, setting my folder options to see
system files there're hidden folders/ $RECYCLE>BIN, RECYCLER and System
Volume Info. all are non-accessible. ??

Thank you
 
P

pebble

Thanks.

use front page express, the marquee effect is one of its options.


mikeyshd



How do you do that sig mikeyshd?


do a cleanup and use the advanced option to delete all but the last restore point.
on that drive.

mikeyshd



I have a 150GB external HDD. I use it mostly for images created by IFW. I
can only count about 70 GBs being used but Windows is warning me that there
is only 13.8 GBs left. I also noticed, setting my folder options to see
system files there're hidden folders/ $RECYCLE>BIN, RECYCLER and System
Volume Info. all are non-accessible. ??

Thank you
 

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