Missing Hard Drive Space

[Max]

I recently purchased a new computer - Pentium 4 - 2.8Ghz
with a 40 Gig hard drive Dual booting Win 98SE/Win XP
Home - I partitioned the drive with Partition Magic 8 -
into 7 partitions - C:2.99G - D:3.41G - E:0.98G -
F:4.88G - G:7.81G - H:11.7G - I:5.44G

C: is Win98SE; D: is Win XP Home; E: is The Paging
file;F: is Programs; and the other three partitions are
for Data.

C Drive: My Computer shows 836Mb used. Total folders on
partition = 477Mb = 359used Mb unaccounted for.
D Drive: My Computer shows 2090Mb used. Total folders on
partition = 1478Mb = 612 used Mb unaccounted for. (I know
system restore has 200Mb of this. Still leaves 412Mb
unaccounted for.

When I run a third party hard disk analyser it shows I
have a pagefile.sys file on C Drive of 383Mb, on D Drive
of 119Mb, and on F Drive,(the page file partition) a
pagefile.sys of 383Mb.

The search function fails to find any pagefile.sys files.
How do I recover the lost space on Drives C and D? I
cannot delete pagefile.sys because it cannot be found.
Please email replies.

Thanking you for your help

Max

 

[Delwin Lee [MSFT]]

The unaccounted-for space may be in use by System Restore; you can disable
System Restore:

- click Start
- right-click My Computer, go to Properties
- click System Restore tab
- check "Turn off System Restore ..."