Hard Drive Question?

[GCSGEEK]

I am running Xp Pro and am fine with it. Here is my situation. I have 2 Xtra Hard Drives installed on my system for storage. One is a 30 gig the other is a 6 gig. Just recently I a message popped up saying I was getting low on Disk Space on both of them. Had like 20 megs free on both. I know I got a bunch of useless crap. So I ran the clean up Wizard and even moved a bunch of files off of the 2 hard drives to yet another hard drive (seperate brand new one), and it still shows that I have 20 megs free on those 2 drives. Any Idea..? I know I moved about close to a gig worth of info off of each drive and it still shows 20 megs free on them, and yes the data I moved is no longer on the drives.. Any help is greatly appreciated.


Chris

 

[Mosh99]

Have you emptied the recycle bin?
If not, empty it, restart the computer and check disk space again.
You probably need to cleanup your primary drive too, you need 250MB free space minimum.
You need to state what mahine configuration you have, eg ram cpu primary harddrive size etc.
If you have Norton Utilities or Systemworks run the speed disk utility else run defrag from accesories.

 

[GCSGEEK]

It is a PIII 1Gig with 512 megs of Ram. Yes the recycle bin is empty, I tried the Norton Systemworks and it till shows up like that. I have plenty of Room on my C Drive. This is just a wierd thing that I have never encounterd before.


Chris

 

[Mosh99]

The only other thing I can think of at this time is to run Norton Disk Doctor.

One thought, you have Norton Systemworks, is your recycle bin protected? if it is try emptying it completely including protected files

 

[webmigit]

Scandisk and Defrag... could be the hard drives have bad sectors on them?

 

[jpm121]

Also check for any weird swap file configurations -- probably not with 512MB RAM but it could happen if you have file sizes set real high. Windoze can allocate space and panic itself, even if it isn't really "using" the space.