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Hello, and thanks for looking,
My laptop has one HDD, 2 partitions. The second partition is 68.5 Gb and is used just for storing media files. My pc is reporting that there is 23.5 Gb free space in this partition, but there is only 23.3 Gb of data on there. No files are hidden. There should be another 21.7 Gb free space. I realise I'm probably missing something really simple here, has anyone any idea what?
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Partition missing 22 Gb Amount of data + free space don't add up!
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Posted 06 April 2011 - 08:51 PM
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Posted 06 April 2011 - 09:05 PM
Thank you 
now I can see that 'Folder is Empty' isn't always true...
now I can see that 'Folder is Empty' isn't always true...
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Posted 07 April 2011 - 10:02 AM
Well...if you have system files/folders hidden, it might not be true. Other than that, it should be an accurate assessment by Windows.
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Posted 08 April 2011 - 05:53 AM
It was a 'return to factory settings' recovery folder. Settings are 'show all hidden files and folders' so the folder was shown, but was reported by windows as being empty. Windirstat told me different. Thanks for your help
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Posted 08 April 2011 - 12:10 PM
Glad you resolved it, happy computing 
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