Re: C Drive capacity erroneous reading

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I have a user who is unable to save anything over 200M

Going into My Computer shows 250M free, yet going into the CD drive,
showing all hidden folders and system files etc, selecting all of
them and clicking on properties shows only 5.5G of 20G in use. There
is almost 14G seemingly in use but I can't see it.

Is there a way of finding this disk space and claiming it back?

Thanks

Havenlad

You left out a lot of details so here's one guess. See if this sounds
like a possibility:
Assuming you mean the user can't save over 200M to a CD (which you
didn't say):

It's a CD-RW your'e talking about and there have been files deleted
from it. Deleting those files does not recover the space they occupied
on several types of CDs. Also if you write one session, finish it, then
start another session, on many of them, the olde data is gone and only
the new data shows up. But the old data is still there, taking up
space.
The only way to get all the space back is to erase or reformat the
CD.
Whatever you're using to look at file space may be simply displaying
the number of files visible; meaning, it doesn't see all the old files.
Thus can't count right.
If you look at the CD with your burnere program, you should be able
to get a look at exactly what is on the CD and what the remaining
writeable space is. If they don't add up to the right numbers it's
becuse of something akin to the above. I've even had that happen on -R
CDs; but of course you can never reclaim the space in any way on those.
Once you burn it, that space is gone forever.

Try reading here:
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HTH

Twayne


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