Trouble with harddrive space

[Murray]

I have a 60 GB harddrive at 7200 rpm, I'm running WinXP and the drive is set to NTSF.
If I check the properties for my harddrive, it says I have 50 GB of busy space, however if I mark all the files inside my harddrive (including systemfiles) it says that all takes 40 GB.

That means that I have 10 GB of free space on my harddrive that for some reason is completley lost.

Now, I have tried scandisc, I have tried defrag, but nothing works, and I will not, I repeat NOT format my harddrive.

I don't really know what to do about it, although I do however know the cause behind this:
Every time I uninstall Steam (shitty software) it deletes the cachefiles, but it doesn't seem to delete the space they're taking, and therefore I have lots of busy space that acually isn't used at all.

Is there any program that can fix this problem or anything?
Please help me out.

 

[Willber123]

all i can think of is disk-cleanup, see if that can free up some space, im not sure, maybe wen u select everything, ur missing some other stuff out? i dunno try disk-cleanup tho

 

[Washuu]

its windows crap ur not seeing, "system volume information" if get rid of all the restrictions to folders... like hidden viewable, and then some secure things, u will be able to see it.
on my second file, with all things disable, it as a random file on the drive "page file - system file" and its 2gb just for that file, its protected and hidden.

 

[Murray]

Originally posted by Murray
however if I mark all the files inside my harddrive (including systemfiles) it says that all takes 40 GB.

Noticed that I mentioned the systemfiles as well.
Even if I didn't mark them, they hardly remain at 10 GB.

 

[Willber123]

murray, maybe its jsut windows because it says ive only used about 22gigs, but wen i highlight everything it only shows up as 15gigs. maybe it counts some crazy stuff. secret hidden microsoft programs that allow bill gates to spy on us !!!

 

[Murray]

Originally posted by Willber123
murray, maybe its jsut windows because it says ive only used about 22gigs, but wen i highlight everything it only shows up as 15gigs. maybe it counts some crazy stuff. secret hidden microsoft programs that allow bill gates to spy on us !!!

*sighs*
I just said that the busy space increases every time I uninstall Steam.
(Yeah, I will never use it again until Half-Life 2 releases, and I will still hate it when it does. :flame

Never mind, I should probably just go to some store and get a 25-pack of CD's and burn all that's important and format it later on...
Ops, feel free to close/delete this thread.

 

[mrchimp]

I just tried selecting everything in my windows partition and compared the combined file size to how much of the partition was 'busy' and it matched exactly (in linux). So washuu might be right.

I would suggest checking out Norton utilities out, it has something that can magically free up hard disk space.

 

[Murray]

Originally posted by mrchimp
I just tried selecting everything in my windows partition and compared the combined file size to how much of the partition was 'busy' and it matched exactly (in linux). So washuu might be right.

I would suggest checking out Norton utilities out, it has something that can magically free up hard disk space.

Hey thanks alot, mate!
I checked the garbage can and it turned out to be the files that was taking the space!
I deleted them all and I have my space back!
Thx again.

Ok, ops, now you can definetly feel free to close this thread.

 

[mrchimp]

I don't know why your thanking me, washuu mentioned it

 

[Murray]

Originally posted by mrchimp
I don't know why your thanking me, washuu mentioned it

Err, no?
Washu mentioned the hiddem system files that I already knew about, but you mentioned the undeleted files in the Garbage can.
I thought I fixed so those files would be deleted at once. :dozey:

 

[mrchimp]

I did?

 

[Murray]

Well not really, but you mentioned the Norton thingy and I thought you were reffering to the garbage can, since Norton makes some changes around that stuff when installed.

 

[mrchimp]

It does?

 

[Murray]

...

ok, so maybe you didn't help me at all, but you did mention something that made me think about stuff I hadn't checked yet.

 

[mrchimp]

:farmer:

 

[Murray]

:smoking: :thumbs:

 

[mrchimp]

:naughty: