Re: 40GB Disappeared
- From: "Michael D. Ober" <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam.>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:55:00 -0600
"Guilherme" <Guilherme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:F556ED07-1726-49CA-A5C1-85EAABB37C56@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello John,
thank you for your reply, but i don't agree with you.
As you says, from 120GB I have actually 111,79.
From these 111GB, 85GB are in C partition.
Within C partition, i can find only 37GB of data, though when I go to
properties of particion c, windows shows that c has ~85GB and only 3GB are
free! So, 40GB are missing and this cannot be just this byte counting system.
As I wrote before, sequoia gives me this information about volume c:
Size: 81,6GB (41.630.603.089bytes).
Prease, repare the numbers: from 81GB->41... bytes!
I don't know wether this is a hardware or software problem. All tests on my
hard disk are ok...
Please, more suggestions!
Guilherme
"John Fullbright" wrote:
Once you right size the disk (disk manucturers report a 120G Drive as 1000
is a KB. Disk tools report based on 1024 bytes is a KB.) It looks just
about right. The missing space is the Lenevco and Linux partitions.
"Guilherme" <Guilherme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:109007F5-03E4-4F06-8F00-FE6FF72748EC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It says:
> 6.24 GB (Lenovo)
> 85,23 GB NTFS (c: Windows)
> 18,44 GB Linux
> 1,88GB swap for linux
>
>
>
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> Do you perhaps have a hidden Lenovo restore partition?
>> What does Disk Management report?
>>
>> "Guilherme" <Guilherme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:25867222-6525-4D50-9838-73A0ACF5C6B1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have a very strange problem!
>> >
>> > I have a lenovo T60 laptop, with windows vista business and also a
>> > partition
>> > for Linux. My harddisk has 120GB and I left 85.2GB for windows
>> > (partition
>> > C)
>> > . However, my free disk area was getting smaller without installing
>> > softwares
>> > or saving personal data. I initially thought this was windows >> > updates
>> > or
>> > the
>> > system restore disk. So I made it very small, and the problem
>> > continued.
>> > Now,
>> > I have only 3GB free!
>> > Now comes the strange part!
>> > 1) When I select all files in C (including system files and hidden
>> > files)
>> > and go to properties, it shows only 37GB of size.
>> > 2) I have then used SequoiaView to try to find out possible large >> > files
>> > that
>> > are
>> > using the rest of the partition. strangely, it graphically displays
>> > only
>> > the
>> > 37GB with 2GBfree and at the same time says that the partition has
>> > 85GB.
>> > 3) So I went to properties of sequoia and it displays:
>> > Location C:\
>> > Size: 81,6GB (41.630.603.089bytes)
>> > Free: 3,68GB (3.954.462.720bytes)
>> > Showing: All files
>> > Now, we see there is a discrepancy of 40GB in the counting size!!!
>> > (From
>> > 81
>> > to 41GB!!!) There must be a problem in this counting!
>> > 4) I have run several tests to verify the hard disk. None pointed to
>> > any
>> > problem! Accordong to these test, my harddisk is "perfect".
>> > 5) Also have run updated anti-virus softwares and no virus was >> > found.
>> > (perhaps some virus was cousing such behaviour).
>> >
>> > Any suggestion how to solve this problem?
>> >
>> > Next option I see is to reinstall windows vista. Is it possible to
>> > format
>> > C,
>> > reinstall windows and still keep the Linux partition?
>> > Many thanks in advance
>> >
>> > Guilherme
>>
>>
>>
Do you by any chance have Norton Undelete (or Executive Software, Symantic, etc)? Various undelete programs will consume huge amounts of disk space.
Mike.
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