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George R

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Drive shows full but add up the folders and not
« on: November 30, 2005, 04:33:23 PM »
Hi,
Hope this isn't too simple (and I have looked for an answer to no avail....): I have a 40 G hard drive. It works fine, but the system shows that it is full. When I go to Windows Explorer (to see what I can delete) and add up the data in the various folders, I get only 30G of data. Where is the rest, I wonder?
The drive contains no system files and is only used to back up music and data. I have revealed the hidden files as well, but still can't do better than 30G. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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    Re: Drive shows full but add up the folders and no
    « Reply #1 on: November 30, 2005, 06:21:06 PM »
    Did you allow for overhead? Most files take up more space than their physical size. You should also allow for the fact that manufacturers consider 1000 bytes to a kilo, but there is actually 1024 bytes. Windows reports the latter.
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    Re: Drive shows full but add up the folders and no
    « Reply #2 on: December 01, 2005, 05:13:37 AM »
    Do you have anything on the drive that is compressed?  Windows will reserve enough room for the uncompressed  size of the file/folder.
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    Re: Drive shows full but add up the folders and no
    « Reply #3 on: December 01, 2005, 12:07:21 PM »
    System Restore...
    $NTUninstallers$...

    If you have Nortons it's probably protected Recycle Bin files...

    The possibilities are endless and we don't even know your OS yet.

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    Drive shows full but add up the folders and not
    « Reply #4 on: December 02, 2005, 04:03:00 AM »
    Try running - chkdsk /r - and see if the size report changes.

    Then do a good CLEANUP
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    George_R

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    Re: Drive shows full but add up the folders and no
    « Reply #5 on: December 02, 2005, 11:35:47 AM »
    You guys (and gals?) are great. Thanks for your help.

    The culprit is a gobackio.bin file which is 4G large!! This, in addition to the overhead space and some space for the compressed files, adds up to the 40G HD specs.

    I don't fully know whether gobackio.bin is there as a result of an earlier instance of Norton that I had or whether it is used by AVG Anti-virus (which I do have - but how it uses GoBack is beyond me - I only have the free home edition. Also, with AVG it is supposed to be resident in the C folder, which for me is on the other hard drive).

    I wonder ..... do you think I can delete the entire file? Please give me your thoughts. All I really want to use that particular hard drive for is a place to hold my music, photos and some videos.

    Thanks again!!
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    Drive shows full but add up the folders and not
    « Reply #6 on: December 02, 2005, 11:53:28 AM »
    If it isn't an OEM restore file (?) it should be OK to delete it, as gobackio.bin is just that, a part of Roxio's GoBack system.
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