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re: 40GB HD Missing "some" Space Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:29 pm Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) I knew that the "New Math" that was introduced about 40 years ago was strange, but I suppose it must've grown more strange after that. The difference between digital and decimal counts probably absorbs 2-3 GB's, but you mention a set of figures that in my version of math adds up to 18.3 GB's. Instead of a "missing 15", I seem to be getting a difference closer to 20 GB. Is there a partition? . Kiwi ** On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:14 pm, Bradley Wolosz wrote: >I have a Western Digital Hard Drive >( WDC WD400JB-00ENA ) >Drive is set as the master drive of two >Computer shows availible space of 3.7 GB, but >when you add all the contents of folders ans subs the total comes out to 10.6 GB >and an aditional 4 GB going to system & resources > >This is leaving 15 GB of hard drive space as missing >When I run Scandisc no errors are found on the partition > >Can anyone help with the 15GB of missing space? > >Thanks, > Brad [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 1:12 pm Posted by Rockhound (481 messages posted) Do you have system restore turned on ? On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:14 pm, Bradley Wolosz wrote: >I have a Western Digital Hard Drive >( WDC WD400JB-00ENA ) >Drive is set as the master drive of two >Computer shows availible space of 3.7 GB, but >when you add all the contents of folders ans subs the total comes out to 10.6 GB >and an aditional 4 GB going to system & resources > >This is leaving 15 GB of hard drive space as missing >When I run Scandisc no errors are found on the partition > >Can anyone help with the 15GB of missing space? > >Thanks, > Brad [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 2:51 pm Posted by al man (50 messages posted) its probably a virus duplicating and eating your space. go into norton antivirus and delete all the files in the view quarantined items section if im right all your space would be back [Reply or follow-up to this message] 40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 5:57 pm Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO A 40 GB hdd should give 37.25 GB of Binary space. Is it an OEM drive and does it have a hidden recovery partition? (Usually about 5 GB). I have seen a 250 GB drive with a 15GB recovery partition which has only about 5 GB of actual recovery files in the form of a 'Ghost' drive image and 10 GB of wasted space. System Restore is the usual culprit after which it might be the MFT. How is the drive formatted? OPEN OFFICE [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