Re: Urgent: Please Help: Gigabytes Lost
From: OShah (nospam_at_aol.com)
Date: 08/28/04
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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:06:28 -0700
"Joe [X5]" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> My Learned Friends,
>
> I have recently bought a 40 GB mp3 player. Windows
> recognises it as a mass storage device with 37.2gb
> capacity. I had transferred some files to the player and
> later deleted all of them to make some organisational
> changes. Now Windows reads a full capacity of 37.2 GB but
> free space of only 33gb. Thus, somewhere I have lost
> 4.2gb. Any ideas as to how I might retrieve them? I have
> tried Norton - clean sweep - fast and safe clean up to no
> avail. I would prefer to know how to solve this problem
> rather than return the device as of course it may happen
> again in the future.
>
> Please advise
>
> Yours,
>
> Joseph
>
>
Have you enabled "Show hidden files and folders"? If you want the disk
to be empty, try formatting it (either right-click format, or use disk
management "diskmgmt.msc").
IMPORTANT: DO NOT FORMAT THE WRONG DRIVE!! That's a nice way of losing
data.
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