Quite nice of windows XP to take 9gb of space and hide it from me...

[leech]

Where does the harddrive space go? I just removed a bunch of things off my harddrive because magically, it says it's full. So after removing a ton of stuff, finally it says I have 7.67gb free... well, even COUNTING that, I have a total of 59gb on my harddrive, and since it's a 73gb harddrive (68gb after format) I do think that my math should be ok enough to say that there is 9 gb missing, wouldn't you?

I have a Fat32 Filesystem (due to it being easier to write to with linux, more than any other reason) Any ideas why this happens? It's irritating as all hell, and it's had this same problem since Fat32 was introduced way back when....

Leech

[ayoub_ibrahim]

do you have system restore enabled?

[Tjalfe]

swapfile usually takes up a huge chunk

[Gurm]

No no. There's a technical reason for this, but if you look at the drive in Partition Magic or something, you'll discover that 8GB has been "left over".

Really irksome. I forget the technical reason, too.

You can get it back with Partition Magic or a similar tool though.

- Gurm

[Rob(QG)]

That's usually 8 Megabyte, Gurm (in my experience at least )

If it's Fat32 then it sounds like slack space. Under NTFS it could also be taken up with files that are in directories that you don't have access to (eg system restore).

[leech]

Originally posted by tjalfe
swapfile usually takes up a huge chunk

Swap space is 768mb (I checked that already)

Quite annoying. Would System Restore seriously take THAT much space? This isn't MB I'm talking about here, but GIGABYTES.

Leech

[Goc]

Sounds to me like cluster size under FAT32 problem... FAT32 wasn't exactly meant to handle that much space... Check if you have lots of small (<4kb) files.
Or it could be Sytem Restore...

[Technoid]

you could also check temporary internet files, there is a pesky bug that prevents them from ever being erased, and it can easily grow to 9 gigs
Unfortunatley you have to check by hand using the CLI, since those folders are "protected harder than the british crown juvels" and might not be esily accesed from explorer

And no the empty temp internet files button in controllpanel do not work

[leech]

Found it... it WAS System restore. (I don't use IE, but then again, does MozillaFirebird use the Temporary Internet files directory? I figured it just used the Cache directory) Anyhow, System Restore was set to use the maximimum available (which it said was about 9gb). Then I ran the Disk Clean up and what do you know, there it all was, under Obsolete System Restore files.

God windows is shitty.

Leech

[Gurm]

Yeah sorry I meant MB, not GB. Oops!

/me blushes

[leech]

Back in the day, 8mb would have mattered something, now the only thing you can do with 8mb is habe about 20 porn pics

Leech

[DentyCracker]

As soon as I saw the topic I thought "System Restore", or horror of horrors "Norton Protected Recycle Bin". Both things are forbidden on any machine I administer

[The PIT]

Only once had a problem with Norton's recycle bin and that was simply a case of deleting in safe mode a corrupt file.
System restore when disable doesn't go and store the files under obsolete System restore files does it.

[DentyCracker]

I like files to be deleted when I delete them.

[Fred H]

I switched of "System Restore" on all of my HDs.
I'm using Ghost 2003 every veek or so.
By this I can better controll the primary HD capacity and system crash or corrupted files.
Yes the Norton Recicled bin is a questin...
The whole Norton Anti Virus 2004 is a very resource hungry monster. I wonder if the earlyer 2002 or 2003, maybe does better.

Fred H