I have Norton Ghost 9.0 installed, and I decided to back up my C and D drive (system root and files) and save the backup on my F drive (300 GB) External Hard drive. I set up the backup to be a scheduled incremental backup. I didn’t realize that I had to done a base backup and incremental ? which would copy all that I had on Drive C and D which really took up space!
I found later that if I checked the box, which allows only 1 current set of backups, I would had been fine.
I went to the Backup Image Browser and found the reason for the external hard drive to be low on space! I deleted the files not needed, after checking to make sure I didn?t delete anything important.
I manually deleted the backup files via Explorer from my D:\Backup folder (too big for recycle bin, just deleted) .
I am still showing 53 gig of free space when in fact I should have over 110 gig left!!
How do I RECOVER THE FREE SPACE and totally rid the backups that no longer exist on my external hard drive?
Current System;
Windows XP Professional
3.60 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
2046 Megabytes Installed Memory
PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A [CD-ROM drive]
TEAC DV-516D [CD-ROM drive]
3.5″ format removeable media [Floppy drive]
Doug Aleshire [Hard drive] (120.03 GB) — drive 0
USB 2.0 Storage Device USB Device [Hard drive] (300.07 GB) — drive 1
c: (on drive 0) 41.94 GB 8.70 GB free
d: (on drive 0) 78.08 GB 26.95 GB free
f: (on drive 1) 300.07 GB 53 GB free
Thanks