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  • painintheass
    So Fucking Banned
    • Apr 2004
    • 838
    #1

    Missing Hard drive space??

    I'm just wondering if anyone encountered this problem before and what you did to solve it.


    I'm running windows 2000 on my laptop and for some reason almost 2 gig of hard drive space is missing.

    There is NOTHING absolutely NOTHING loaded on the computer other then the operating system and a few applicatoins. (Word, grisoft anti virus, spyware doctor.)

    It's spyware and virus free. I've cleared all the caches, temp files, etc..
    But it's still missing

    Computer functions fine... but this is one of those technical mysteries I can't explain.
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    • hydro
      Confirmed User
      • Dec 2003
      • 4216
      #2
      temp files maybe? do a search on your computer for "*" and arrange them by biggest file first and look for any big files that are useless.

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        • Illicit
          wtf ?
          • Dec 2003
          • 11895
          #3
          run scandisk and see if it fixes it ... I was missing a few gig once, it found some problems and corrected them
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            • smack
              Push Porn Like Weight.
              • Mar 2002
              • 10652
              #4
              the only time i have ever expierienced something similar is when i re partitioned one of my machines. i lost almost 2 gig because i didn't set the boot sector in the right place, and did something to the other two partitions. eventually after fucking with partition magic i was able to recover the space.
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                • Shaze
                  Confirmed User
                  • Oct 2003
                  • 2662
                  #5
                  Originally posted by painintheass
                  I'm just wondering if anyone encountered this problem before and what you did to solve it.


                  I'm running windows 2000 on my laptop and for some reason almost 2 gig of hard drive space is missing.

                  There is NOTHING absolutely NOTHING loaded on the computer other then the operating system and a few applicatoins. (Word, grisoft anti virus, spyware doctor.)

                  It's spyware and virus free. I've cleared all the caches, temp files, etc..
                  But it's still missing

                  Computer functions fine... but this is one of those technical mysteries I can't explain.
                  maybe the 2 gigs missing is unpartitioned space? or unformatted free space? also, did you check Disk Administrator in Control Panels?
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                    • painintheass
                      So Fucking Banned
                      • Apr 2004
                      • 838
                      #6
                      I got a letter back from microsoft support.

                      Basically in a nutshell there are hidden files that don't appear even if you set your system to show them. And sometimes if your operating system files aren't on C: drive it they don't properly dissappear.

                      So they sent me a temporary link and gave me an update. I guess not enough people experienced this for them to make it part of a service pack update.

                      I've got it back... but it makes me wonder just what else is on my computers that I can't see.

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                        • After Shock Media
                          It's coming look busy
                          • Mar 2001
                          • 35299
                          #7
                          Something else to look into.
                          The properites of your trash bin. The damn thing is ussually set at default around 10% if I remember. On a 120gig drive thats 12 gigs alone.

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                            • flashfire
                              ICQ 1 6 7 8 5 3 4 9 2
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 13098
                              #8
                              an 80 gig drive shows as 76gb...some space is used for formatting ect.

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                                • Rich
                                  So Fucking Banned
                                  • Jan 2003
                                  • 11486
                                  #9
                                  I once had that problem, I solved it by purchasing a real computer.


                                  http://www.apple.ca/switch

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