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re: Help: lost HD space ????
Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:28 pm
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Posted by Steve (1481 messages posted)


emptrying Norton's protected recycle bin.. should do it for you..


On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:15 pm, PL wrote:
>I have 40GB HD - pre-installed/pre-config by the factory with WinXP on my Notebook.
>The pre-config are:
>C: 20GB (WinXP) - NTFS
>D: 14 GB (Data)- NTFS
>E: 5 GB (recover data files) -FAT32.
>
>C: and E: are OK with disk space avail.
>D: reported that I have only 3.6GB left of space. I have calculated from all Files/Folders/Sub-folders
>and hidden files and totalled approx 4 Gb used. The free space should be approx ~10GB
>left.
>I have ran Win XP utils defrag/check, etc. and Norton Utils 2002. Partition Magic
>7 to checked the avail space in D: and they're all reported only 3.6 Gb avail.
>
>Can someone tell me where are the ~10GB missing space used for ???? -and more importantly
>how can I recover these spaces.
>
>Please Help :-(
>
>Thanks in advance.


Written in response to:
Help: lost HD space ???? (PL: Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:15 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Help: lost HD space ???? (triplate: Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:40 pm)
*re: Help: lost HD space ???? (PL: Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:24 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Help: lost HD space ???? (PL: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 6:15 pm)
-re: Help: lost HD space ???? (Steve: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 6:28 pm)
-re: Help: lost HD space ???? (triplate: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 6:40 pm)
-re: Help: lost HD space ???? (Steve: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 7:00 pm)
*re: Help: lost HD space ???? (triplate: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 7:04 pm)
*re: Help: lost HD space ???? (PL: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 7:24 pm)
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