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    Hard disk showing full

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    by motasimjawaid ·

    I’ve a hard disk with 80GB capacity. Firt 2 drives (C & D) and formatted on NTFS, where the E and F drives are formatted on FAT. My F drive’s capacity is 18GB and there is total data of 3GB. But the hard disk shows full (shows only one hundred and something MB space) and don’t allow me to save big files. Where the remaining space lost? Please help me out.

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    • #2630343

      Clarifications

      by motasimjawaid ·

      In reply to Hard disk showing full

      Clarifications

    • #2630288

      Are you talking about 4 partitions on one HD ? . . .

      by older mycroft ·

      In reply to Hard disk showing full

      What size is EACH partition ?

      What operating system are you using ?

      What format of FAT is on E: & F: ?

      Have you run a defrag on EACH partition ?

    • #2630266

      And, what is telling you…………..

      by thumbsup2 ·

      In reply to Hard disk showing full

      As well as the questions Old Mycroft asked, what is it you’re using to tell you how much data is on F and what tells you the drive is full? Knowing what you are looking at will help us.

      • #2630256

        Hm

        by wesley.chin ·

        In reply to And, what is telling you…………..

        there was a machine here that was like that too, though not to that degree.

        When was the last time that a scandisk was done? Sometimes the OS may not be reporting the correct information due errors.

        Do you have system restore on? if so, there is probably is lot of old restore points that are accumulating. Each one takes a substantial amount of space.

    • #2467086

      Try

      by ramuvr ·

      In reply to Hard disk showing full

      Try a check disk on the drive.
      Also goto disk manger and check if you drives are properly formatted and working.
      And they are not dynamic disk….

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