lost hard drive space

[thingimijig]

i noticed this morning that i have suddenly lost about 8gb from my hard drive.
i have been doing back ups a while now but never had this before, the only thing i can think of is for the first time the other day i used decrypter to read and create an iso and burn it back on 7 disc.

checked all through the hard drive and done a defrag but cant find anything.
anybody else had this prob or know what has happened.

thingimijig.

[scharfis_brain]

Tried you to run Scandisk/ChkDsk or something else?
( Start -> Run -> "chkdsk" -> OK )
I think, that there are about 8GB of lost file fragments.
This often occurs after a system crash or a power-down without proper system-shutdown.

[TelemachusMH]

Also, if you have a program like nortan undelete. You might just have a hidden folder somewhere with all your recently deleted files. If your images, or a few of them, were in there, it could easily esplain the lost.

TelemachusMH

[thingimijig]

thanks telemachusmh.

it was norton under protected files, and i have disabled the option to protect the recycle bin.

thanks.

thingimijig.

[TelemachusMH]

I really dislike that program. ;)

TelemachusMH

[scharfis_brain]

I've disabled my recycle bin, because it is IMO really unnessecary.
If I am deleting something I know what I'm doing: I want free space.

[TelemachusMH]

I am the same way ... sorta ... I just always push shift when I delete something, so it doesn't go to the recyling bin, but Norton Undelete is annoying because it creates another hidden recyling bin in a folder buried in the windows system folder. So that anytime you 'delete' anything ... it is just moved into that folder. What was esspecially fun for me, was when I tried to disble it, but still keep the rest of System Works. I ended up unable to delete anything on my computer, and the program wouldn't work anymore. After a 30 gigs of deleted files were on my hard drive ... I had to wipe everything to get rid of it all.

I don't like Norton Undelete much (or nearly all Norton products).

TelemachusMH

[scharfis_brain]

IMO defrag and undelete are useful.
But undelete is only as standalone-app useful when trying to restore deleted (not moved) data. I have always a copy of undelete.exe on my emergency-bootdisk/cd.

[MackemX]

Norton protection is priceless

If you don't want it just disable it on the drive and if it still affects you by then something is wrong with your system
:confused:

I have 5 drives and only one has Norton protection turned on and it works just fine and it has helped me a couple of times when I have decided I need a file I deleted a while back

I did like Goback till it messed up big style, cos you could go back to previous versions of files aswell as recover them

but I guess ripping DVD's didn't help Goback cos it was just too much for it dealing with 1GB files all the time