scandisk on reboot - no change! - Bummer! - that really only leaves properly formed, but hidden files unless there is an application/task running at start-up and acquiring the space as temporary filespace
If it's temporary filespace (not recorded under a filename) you should be able to see the space from another OS instance - Safe boot without any drivers etc and DIR or recovery boot and DIR Surly Treesize would also "see" the extra 20Gb? - Not if the id used for Treesize is Denied access to even look at the directory where it is allocated How about creating an extra (new) 'admin' ID and running Treesize under that? The new id should inherit 'admin' access without the access Denial Copy and format and recopy should make the space visible again - but where is it now ? - whatever has it will surely re-acquire it under the restored system JimB Just an add-in to this problem:----- I had three PC-DOS formatted floppies - One with 1.2Mb files (readable), and 1.2Mb space, Another with no files, and no space The third that the drive would not recognise had been inserted so it is possible for the FAT structure to be corrupted Great fun for the maintenance engineer tests - Along with the PC that ignored the 'write protect' tab and wrote to diskette instead of reading from it at boot time. But you have checked your drive structure (and I'm presuming it's NTFS) so it shouldn't be anything like that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Gundersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:27 PM Subject: Re: Suddenly - well slowly I am losong Hdd space? 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 -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
