HDD Space
This is a discussion about HDD Space in the Customization Tweaking category; I had a lot of files in a single folder that were not necessary anymore and so I deleted them. Now come the problem. My drive is 16. 0GB in size and I deleted about 700 files totaling ~10GB because I was down to about 2GB of free.
I had a lot of files in a single folder that were not necessary anymore and so I deleted them. Now come the problem. My drive is 16.0GB in size and I deleted about 700 files totaling ~10GB because I was down to about 2GB of free. Problem is that the math doesn't add up anymore.
I did a property on all the folders and they total 4.53GB of space used. But when I do a property of the drive it shows 14.2GB of space used.
4.53GB of files + 1.80GB of free = 16.0GB of disk ?????
Maybe is a newer style of MS math that I'm not associated with.
Any ideas (and yes I emptied the recycle bin and all temporary files).
I did a property on all the folders and they total 4.53GB of space used. But when I do a property of the drive it shows 14.2GB of space used.
4.53GB of files + 1.80GB of free = 16.0GB of disk ?????
Maybe is a newer style of MS math that I'm not associated with.
Any ideas (and yes I emptied the recycle bin and all temporary files).
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Have no clue about MS 'new math'.:-/
Are the files still in the recycle bin? If so that's why.
If its an NTFS drive it may be reserved space for the MFT, after a default install for my machine once i did a defrag and saw an enormous portion of my disk (about 7Gb) filled with "system files", it turned out to be reserved sapce for my MFT. I eventually managed to get rid of it by running the boot time defragmenter of Diskeeper, whichr educed it to about 200Mb
