>Hi, I'm having exactly the same pblm now:
>
>I have several hard disks with partitions, some in FAT32 and others in NTFS.
>
>I don't know why, but since yesterday I realized that each time I deleted some files 
>on one of them, in the property windows of any partition, the total size used never 
>decrease, but if I add some files, it still increase, until I can't add anymore 
because 
>of the wrong total size!!! 
>Whereas if I select all the directories and files, including those hidden which 
I 
>always display, then their real total size is shown, and doesn't match the one in 
>the property window of my partition...
>
>I've tried to make a chkdsk on the fat32 and ntfs partitions of my windows xp hard 
>disk, and though it didn't find any pblm, after this my hard disks were acting normally 
>again...but only until I restored a ghost image of my windows system partition...
>
>During these events there were also 2 times when my windows interface was completely 
>freezing all of a sudden, and took forever when I tried to shutdown, so I had to 
>reset, and no scandisk occured after the reboot..
>
>So now as my hard disk are quickly reaching their space limit with this terrible 
>bug, I really need to know why is this happening, and how can I repair and avoid 
>it, without having to do a veeerryy long chkdsk on all my hd, though I'm even not 
>sure it works, maybe just a reboot works randomly...

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