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.

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.

run scandisk and see if it fixes it ... I was missing a few gig once, it found some problems and corrected them

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.

maybe the 2 gigs missing is unpartitioned space? or unformatted free space? also, did you check Disk Administrator in Control Panels?

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.

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.

an 80 gig drive shows as 76gb...some space is used for formatting ect.

I once had that problem, I solved it by purchasing a real computer. :winkwink:


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