Missing HD space... Norton problem?

[Chris]

Hi all

XP home sp1, 364ram, PIII Laptop, 20 GB hd.

I have developed a problem with missing HD space. Recently
I checked my C drive expecting it to have about 8 Gig left
and found to my horror I was down to my last 500mb. I was
positive I hadn't used up all the space, and bought
sizeexplorer (a more detailed explorer programme that
shows where the space is being used). It showed I had
filled about 9gb. I realise there is some space used up
during filing, but not 10 GB worth!

I have looked into this somewhat and only managed to come
up with one answer, which may not be right. Recently I
bought Norton System works, and found it to be too
invasive and performance sapping so got rid of it pretty
sharpish. I didn't really pay much attention to the Norton
protected recycle bin, now after reading others problems
it appears it may have been stashing my deleted items in
the ntfs (which could explain the missing space as I often
video edit). Because I stopped running Norton I couldn't
right click and delete protected files.

I have tried all the usual tool like chkdsk and defrag but
with luck. Does anyone know of a tool I can use to unearth
the badly earmarked freespace?

Sorry for the essay. Hope someone can help.

 

[Allen]

Hey Chris,


If you go under system restore and turn it off it should
restore most all of your Hard Drive space. I had a
similar problem a few weeks ago and as soon as I did that
I got back 13 Gb of hard drive space. Good luck.


Allen

 

[Guest]

Thanks Allen

I was just trying that. However my system restore looks to
be about 2gb, and I can't change it - and everytime I turn
it off completely it says it is experiencing a problem
closing one of the drives! (Which is a part of a larger
problem I am experiencing). I Don't think this particular
problem is a part of this. Thanks anyway. Does anyone else
have any idea?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Allen

I have tried this, and I have another problem which stops
me changing this file size. In fact system restore doesn't
work properly even if it allocated space for restoring.
However the size of this file is about 2gb not the missing
9. So I don't think this is the problem.

anyone got any more clues?

 

[chris]

Thanks Allen

Unfortunately I cannot change my system restore quantity
(a part of another problem I have). However I am not sure
this is actually the problem as it only stands at 2gb (no
where near the missing 8gb)

Anyone else have a idea - I am pretty sure it has
something to do with bad file allocation (or ear marking
space full when it is empty).

C

 

[chris]

Thanks Allen

This didn't work. I have another problem with my system
restore anyway which won't let me change it. However it
only stands at 2gb not the missing 9. Anyone else have an
idea?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Allen

That didn't work. I have another problem with one of the
windows components which run various parts like system
restore. I cannot change the value of the system restore -
however I did check it and it only stands t 2gb, not the
missing 9gb. Does anyone else have a clue to the missing
space?

 

[Jason Wisher]

This didn't work. I have another problem with my system

restore anyway which won't let me change it. However it
only stands at 2gb not the missing 9. Anyone else have an
idea?

You could use FolderSizes (www.foldersizes.com) to figure out exactly
where the drive space is.