recovering hard drive space

[Guest]

I just bought an addtional hard drive to store back-ups. Within a week the
200GB drive was full. I had been deleting the old backups. Today I noticed
when I deleted the backup files; I'm asked "are you sure, this file is too
big and will be permentantly deleted." I say yes, but the space that was
taked-up by the files is still unavailable. I perform disk cleanup and
defrag. The space is still not available. I totaled all the spaced used by
the current list of files. It comes to 94GB. The rest should be available.

I tried this exercise on another non-bootable disk by copying a large video
(4GB), then deleted it. The same result.

I'm using XP Pro SP2.

 

[Richard Urban]

Empty your "Norton" recycle bin as well as the Windows recycle bin to
reclaim your hard drive space.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[IT Boy]

Check have you empty the Recycle Bin and the Recycle Bin Properies on space
reserved for that drive!

S.

 

[Guest]

Check have you empty the Recycle Bin and the Recycle Bin Properies on space
reserved for that drive!

S.


I have encountered the same problem with not being able to reclaim hard drive space after having erased very large files ie backups or video files. These files were too large to go into the recycle bin in the first place. However, I did empty the recycle bin with no effect on available hard drive space. Any further suggestions?