On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:25:35 +0100, you wrote:
Just run scandisk and everything else on a reboot - no change!
Surly Treesize would also "see" the extra 20Gb?
When I had the problem on D: (twice now) 12Gb of files showing up as 23.3Gb
on a 23.8Gb drive partition I copied all the files to another folder on a
different partition - re-formatted D: and copied everything back - guess
what - 12Gb files showing and 11Gb free space.
Cannot find anything showing up as taking 20Gb!
Any more ideas before I buy an Apple!
Hugh
> I am the Administrator so no problem there and I view everything and I
>mean EVERYTHING inc hidden, system and file extensions.
>
>It also means that a task running with administrator authority can 'Deny'
>any, and all users, including itself, read/list access to files and
>directories.
>Also that restriction would apply if you accessed the NTFS partition from
>another Windows instance.
>
>And I would definitely check the drive for faults in the indexing area,
>space and file allocation tables
>
>Re Ghost - grabbing at straws mode-
>but I've already been P'd off by Symantec stuff -
>Goback used to ( and may still) insist on keeping it's restore sets on C:
> not on the other slower 'archive' drive I wanted it to use
>
>Something running in your system has to be doing the dirty - even if it's
>the OS
>and even if nobody else is interested, I would like to know What is doing
>it!
>
>JimB
>
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