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February 11, 2007 at 5:06 am #2251913
Xp misreporting Used disk space.
Lockedby sfcohen · about 17 years, 1 month ago
I have a client with an IBM laptop (T60). The machine has a 70 GB hard disk in one partition. When you look at the properties of the hard disk it tells you that there is 3.6 GB Free (which means over 65 GB used space). If you tally the size of all the actual files including all hidden files the total used space comes to about 30 GB. Where can the other 35 GB be?? I have been racking my brains about this for over a week, any suggestions.
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February 11, 2007 at 5:06 am #2498704
Clarifications
by sfcohen · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Xp misreporting Used disk space.
Clarifications
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February 11, 2007 at 5:30 am #2498701
Partition(s)
by toivo talikka · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Xp misreporting Used disk space.
First of all, even if a hard drive is marketed as 70GB, it hardly ever is. The simple explanation to this is the difference between a Kilobyte – 1024 bytes – and one thousand bytes or 1000. When you get to Gigabytes, the difference is considerable. The manufacturers present the higher figure (1000’s) in their brochures, but Windows Explorer uses the binary 1024 in its calculations. Therefore what is presented as 70GB is in fact a bit more than 65GB in reality.
Secondly, you should go to Control Panel – Administrative Tools – Computer Management – Disk Manager and have a look at the partitions and the free space. It is possible that the second partition has not been set up, or that your client has inadvertently removed it.
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February 11, 2007 at 9:52 pm #2483233
Disk Management
by sfcohen · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Partition(s)
I checked disk management first thing and it shows only one partition of 70 Gb.
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February 12, 2007 at 12:20 am #2483211
System Folders?
by toivo talikka · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Xp misreporting Used disk space.
In the Folder Options, is the option ‘Display the contents of system folders’ selected?
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February 12, 2007 at 8:17 am #2499343
This sounds like
by jesus_c · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Xp misreporting Used disk space.
you only have one partition formatted at 35GB and an unformatted partition of 30GB.Download partition magic which will tell you what has been formated and what has not.But i think that you have two partitions.One formated and one thats not.
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February 12, 2007 at 8:17 am #2499342
Windows will
by jesus_c · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to This sounds like
not show the unpartitioned space , but partition magic will.
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February 13, 2007 at 1:32 am #2499050
Checked Partition Magic
by sfcohen · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Windows will
And partition magic also showed a 70 GB formatted partition.
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May 16, 2007 at 7:35 pm #2580445
how did you solve it
by zhujason721 · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Checked Partition Magic
I have the same problem with my Thinkpad T60 laptop, i have 70 GB hard drive, used less than 30GB as counting all the folders, but system only calculated less than 1GB space left.
I want to know how your problem was solved.thanks
jason
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February 13, 2007 at 3:09 am #2499725
CheckDisk
by toivo talikka · about 17 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Xp misreporting Used disk space.
How about checking the hard drive for errors? Right click the hard drive in Windows Explorer, select Properties, then Tools – Check Now… and ‘Automatically fix file system errors’.
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August 17, 2007 at 7:01 am #2626784
Hard disk showing less space
by bharat546 · about 16 years, 7 months ago
In reply to Xp misreporting Used disk space.
It’s the IBM Rescue and Recovery program. RRbacup folder on root drive. This program makes a complete system state image backup and then stores it in the same partititon.
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May 16, 2009 at 2:22 pm #2946587
I am having the same problem with a T60 misreporting disk space.
by randy p · about 14 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Hard disk showing less space
The hard drive is 140GB which it says 99GB is used but when I check the properties on the directories I only am coming up with about 35GB of space being used. Window is seeing 60GB of space being used that is not. Before you ask I am showing all folders including hidden and the Rapid Restore partition is on the hidden partition and is only about 7GB.
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May 16, 2009 at 2:42 pm #2946584
See if this will help
by rob miners · about 14 years, 10 months ago
In reply to I am having the same problem with a T60 misreporting disk space.
Are you running IBM Rescue and Recovery Backups, apparently they will take up a lot of space.
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May 16, 2009 at 6:12 pm #2946561
Three areas of reserved disk space NOT reported by Windows
by deadly ernest · about 14 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Xp misreporting Used disk space.
properly when measuring disk space or showing what’s used.
1. Recycle Bin
Windows defaults sets this to 10% of each drive / partition. It sets this space aside and doesn’t allow it to be used. Some parts of Windows will show this as not free and some will show it as not used.
Clear the bin, then right click, select properties, and adjust the figure from 10% to 1%. You may find you just found a huge amount of space.
2. System Recovery
Again this space is set aside by the computer and misreported as above. Again the default is usually something like 10% to 12% of the drive, for most modern drives 1% to 4% is sufficient.Go to control panel, system, system recovery, select a drive and adjust the amount set aside, repeat for each drive / partition.
3. Virtual memory
The area set aside for use as virtual memory is not available for use to store data and will also be misreported as above.Unless you wish to set a specified size, you can’t do much about this and there’s not much point anyway.
……….Three areas to free up space.
A. Run a file search for anything ending with the name .tmp – run the search as *.tmp – these are temporary files the system created while working, but Windows is so badly written it rarely cleans up after itself. Watch out though, some will relate to the work being done and won’t be deleted, just make sure to leave it when you get the error message and delete all the others.
2. As above but look for files that start with ~ these are other temporary files so you run the search as ~*.*
3. Go to My Computer and right click on the hard drive, select properties and select clean up. Choose the way you wish to clean up the drive – do NOT select the option to compact the drive as this has been known to cause occasional problems.
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If you need more space after this, plug in a new drive.In the past, using the above six things I’ve often added 30% of the drive to the amount of space available for use.
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