Hard Drive not showing it's used space correctly

**kk52736** · September 21st, 2005, 03:30 PM

my Hard Drive not showing it's used space correctly,

i got a 60 GB hard drive, and i highlight all file to check the space used, it used only about 30 GB but it only have 9 GB space left, why is that, i thought it should be 30 GB free not 9?

can anyone tell me what should i do to free up the space, i already do empty recycle bin, norton, checkdisk........ but still the same.

**NooNoo** · September 21st, 2005, 04:01 PM

if you don't have hidden and system files showing you will not be highlighting all the folders. Empty your temp internet files .... oh and if you use p2p, check you are not a repository...

**kk52736** · September 21st, 2005, 04:17 PM

all my file is showing, so if i highlight all file should be really all file, i had use norton to clean some garbage file like temp, recycle.....protection file....
what is repository for p2p?

**NooNoo** · September 21st, 2005, 05:54 PM

It's when you use p2p software and in reality, it is using you as a file server, unscrupulous users have access to your machine and store files on it which are hidden in normal use.

**kk52736** · September 21st, 2005, 07:09 PM

i am not using p2p program just BT and had setup a ftp server for my friends to download stuff from my computer only

**shamus** · September 21st, 2005, 08:36 PM

Not knowing your OS...
Reboot and press F8.
Choose booting from a DOS prompt.
Win98..run scandisk
WinXP..run chkdsk /f
Sounds to me that you have file system errors that haven't been cured.
Good luck.

**kk52736** · September 21st, 2005, 10:05 PM

i am using xp pro

i had tried but it said type of file system is NTFS........
then there is two warning
WARNING! I parameter specified
WARNING! C parameter specified
your drive may still corrupt even after running chkdsk

so what does it mean....

**confus-ed** · September 22nd, 2005, 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by kk52736

..so what does it mean....

It sounds like somehow or other are running chkdsk in read only mode, if this is an NTFS volume you need to boot from your windows system disk or set chkdsk to do a complete scan on restart, from inside windows.

**kk52736** · September 22nd, 2005, 01:00 PM

OK chkdsk is done, but my space still not back, i had been doing so many times of chkdsk and defragment. but no help, i am losing at least 20 gb space in my drive, how can i fix it?