I have a 7 gig hard drive. I have only 3 gigs of files but for some reason it shows that I only have 755 mb left. What has happened to the other 4 gigs?
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Jump to Postdid you do a disk cleanup lately ,go to mycomputer and click on the drive in question and right click it ,click properties and click disk cleanup, click to delete what ever it finds .
Jump to Postnot likely if it had that many bad sectors I don't think it would bootup.
what operating system are you using Win98 or XP
I think you should run Scandisk
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caperjack 875
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did you do a disk cleanup lately ,go to mycomputer and click on the drive in question and right click it ,click properties and click disk cleanup, click to delete what ever it finds .
sKiTzo 0
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I have, in fact, done a disk cleanup or even better than that I manually visited each and every folder, added up the total of all files and folders, and after making sure that the recycler and temp (etc.) folders were emptied I still only had 2.7 gigs worth of files on this drive but it still says I have only 765 mb left when I should have about 4.3 gigs left. Could this be due to bad sectors?
caperjack 875
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not likely if it had that many bad sectors I don't think it would bootup.
what operating system are you using Win98 or XP
I think you should run Scandisk
sKiTzo 0
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I'm running Xp Pro. I'll try scandisk and see what happens thanks
caperjack 875
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I'm running Xp Pro. I'll try scandisk and see what happens thanks
Go to MY computer and right clikc on you hardrive and go to properties .tool and check of to checkdisk ,reboot .
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