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re: Help: lost HD space ???? Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:28 pm 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Help: lost HD space ???? Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:40 pm Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) You mean "try emptying" dont you???...just checkin...;) On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:28 pm, Steve wrote: >emptrying Norton's protected recycle bin.. should do it for you.. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Help: lost HD space ???? Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:00 pm Posted by Steve (1481 messages posted) got me on that typo..guess i'd better git ma dicsionary out agin..lol.. On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:40 pm, triplate wrote: >You mean "try emptying" dont you???...just checkin...;) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Help: lost HD space ???? Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:04 pm Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) LOL...i NEVER do that!!....;) On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:00 pm, Steve wrote: >got me on that typo..guess i'd better git ma dicsionary out agin..lol.. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Help: lost HD space ???? Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:24 pm Posted by PL (9 messages posted) Yep That's did the trick. I 've forgot about Norton Protected bin. Many Thanks Peter On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:28 pm, Steve wrote: >emptrying Norton's protected recycle bin.. should do it for you.. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum