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theleeb

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Hi, the capacity indicator show the "D" drive to have about 4GB free space out of 10GB. Yet, when I explore the drive, there is nothing there. I had previously been backing up to that drive but deleted those backup files. Yes, i have "view hidden files" turned on and still nothing except for a MediaID.bin file which consumes a whopping 1KB. Have no idea what is using 6GB of D drive space.

Any thoughts?
Thanks.
 

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restore points?
as in: System Volume Information directory

I assume "hide protected operating system files" is unchecked correct?
 

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theleeb said:
Windows Home Premium 32bit

Hi, the capacity indicator show the "D" drive to have about 4GB free space out of 10GB. Yet, when I explore the drive, there is nothing there. I had previously been backing up to that drive but deleted those backup files. Yes, i have "view hidden files" turned on and still nothing except for a MediaID.bin file which consumes a whopping 1KB. Have no idea what is using 6GB of D drive space.

Any thoughts?
Thanks.
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im am just taking a shoot in the wild here but did you just buy a computer prebuilt???

as in you bought it from dell hp or another company??
 

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KOT4K - I don't know where "hide protected operating system files would be". Could the space be used by a "shadow copy"? But then still don't know why "explore" won't display anything.

Darkassain - yes, purchased from Dell....although I had to reinstall everything due to a virus and, if I recall, the Dell support guys had me reformat everything....including the D drive which is an internal hard drive.
 

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The D: drive is a backup partition. Does it get smaller as you carry on working?
One other thought is where is your pagefile kept? If this is on the D drive that would explain all.
 

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I have no idea why the Dell people would have you delete the restore partition as the chances of it getting infected are slim at best...
Do you have Dell Recovery CD's ? ?
 

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patio said:
I have no idea why the Dell people would have you delete the restore partition as the chances of it getting infected are slim at best...
Do you have Dell Recovery CD's ? ?
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There should be recovery CDs with the dell system, failing that contact them with the serial number of your computer or better still if you have it the transaction number that is on your reciept.
 

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    4 x 4GB corsair ballistix sport DDR3 1600 Mhz
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    Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 TI
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    creative x-fi
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    Primary CiBox 22" Widescreen LCD ,Secondary Dell 22" Widescreen
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And when you contact them be *sure* to inform them that their own techs had you format that D drive.

FWIW - that D: drive is a recovery partition, and you should not be looking at it in the first place - forget what it says you have free and what not - that is not a storage partition for you, and anything you do start doing with that partition is only going to hamper you ability to recover from a disastrous error.
 

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Ok, thanks everyone for your advice. No matter what tech tells me, I just purchased an external drive for storage....from a safekeeping standpoint, an external drive is a better solution anyway.
Thanks again.
 

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Try going to:

tools/folder options/view then untick "hide protected operating system files" and press aplly and press ok.

See if there are any massive files that were hidden.

Chances are its restore ...go turn system restore off completely (this is your choice to do) & that should clear out the restore points & free a LOT of space. Free to turn it back on again and create a new restore point (but personally I wouldnt bother with the windows system restore at all. Get yourself a good stand alone backup program *wink*)

Hope that helps somewhat :D
 
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