Missing drive space

[DevasX]

Hi everyone,

I am experiencing an unusual (to me) problem with an install of XP home
edition and I hope one of you has heard of this and has an idea of how to
remedy the situation.

As stated, I'm running XP Home edition (OEM on an HP for what it's worth),
with a "40 GB" EIDE master drive that is the only hard disk on the machine,
the drive has a 4 GB partition and a 32 GB partition (both using NTFS as the
file system). The C: drive is the 32GB partition and is serving as both the
system partition and the boot partition.

Here's the problem, if I right click on C: in my computer and choose
properties, it reports that I am using 30 GB of space and that I only have 2
GB available, however if I open the drive, select all, and choose properties
the total size of files on the drive is only about 15 GB. I selected to show
hidden files and to NOT hide system files before doing this. The page file
is only 512 MB. Where has the other 15 GB gone? For the life of me I can't
find the free space, nor the files that may be occupying the space that I
believe should be there.

Any ideas as to the cause of this would be appreciated or any pointers to
tools that will show me a representation of the physical usage of the drive
and what is using that space would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,
DevoX

 

[ppcc]

This seems to help in finding out where the missing space is
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
Have you run disk cleanup, if you have Norton Protected recycle bin,
that can take up space, and system restore. Also run chkdsk and finally
defragment your HDD, see how much space is missing.