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HDD "lost" space
elvikun:
Greetings.
I know BakaBT might not be exactly the bets place for this but...
...Since I'm trying to seed what I can around here, I started to notice how much space I have left on my HDD ... Never really cared, since I have 10 TB of external drives.... tho not ideal for sharing, since they tend to get a bit hot.
Well, the thing is, I have 500gb HDD in my computer of which 430gb shows as occupied, but no matter how hard I tryied, I'm able to trace only about 360gb of taken space, which is a bit... eh.
Wondered if anybody knows what the "lost" 70gb could be and/or knows about some tool which could help me precisely determine what might be taking it?
Thanks in advance.
kitamesume:
2 possible reasons:
1) you're using a large allocation size, where for example you set it to 64KB, ends up eating 64KB per fragment of a file, whatever the size of the file actually is.
in this scenario, if you throw in 100 1KB files then it'll look as if theres 100 64KB files occupying the disk.
2) some of your files is hidden. you can't see whats hidden now, can you?
krumm:
I've had the hidden Recycle Bin folder steal space when the recycle bin is empty, but it has always been less then 20GB and has always been on an external HDD. May be worth checking.
Scudworth:
If you haven't already, you could try Defragging you hard drive.
elvikun:
Defragmenting quite often, actually.
Well, after looking arond a lot more, I found 30Gb in Oblivion's undeleted folder which actually showed as only 230kb when viewing trough properties. So I guess there's another 40Gb somewhere in my numerous, numerous, numerous folders...
Well. I don't even know why the last 30gb wasn't showing up by normal means (wasn't flagged hidden or anything), and I have no idea where to look for the rest. Any chance you guys know if there is such a tool that could detect...well... abnormal stuff on HDD? Looked around, found many toold but not quite for this purpose.
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