Recovering misallocated space

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WinXP - I found out I was running out of HD space, so I started digging
to find files that I can free up. When I right-click on C:\Winnt in
windows explorer and click on properties, it shows 38 GB in 37349 files.
However, if I select all contents of Winnt, then right-click and hit
properties, it shows 6.9 GB in 35593 files. I'm not so worried about
the file count mismatch, but the size mismatch has me dead in the water.

I have a shared folder on the network that attempts to sync up each
time I log in - I killed that process this morning (had to hard reboot),
so I'm pretty sure that has something to do with my situation. I assume
it's a bad file allocation, but I'm not sure what I can do short of
reimaging the drive (not a realistic solution at the moment). Any
ideas?

- dewey


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dewey99
 
On 7/9/2007 10:53 AM On a whim, dewey99 pounded out on the keyboard

> WinXP - I found out I was running out of HD space, so I started digging
> to find files that I can free up. When I right-click on C:\Winnt in
> windows explorer and click on properties, it shows 38 GB in 37349 files.
> However, if I select all contents of Winnt, then right-click and hit
> properties, it shows 6.9 GB in 35593 files. I'm not so worried about
> the file count mismatch, but the size mismatch has me dead in the water.
>
> I have a shared folder on the network that attempts to sync up each
> time I log in - I killed that process this morning (had to hard reboot),
> so I'm pretty sure that has something to do with my situation. I assume
> it's a bad file allocation, but I'm not sure what I can do short of
> reimaging the drive (not a realistic solution at the moment). Any
> ideas?
>
> - dewey
>
>

Hi Dewey,

Have you run check disk? Start, Run, type cmd and click OK. Then type
chkdsk and press Enter. It will prompt you to schedule a check on
restart. Press Y. Then reboot.

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Ran check disk - found a couple orphaned files and said it did find
errors with the file system. Ran it with the /f option with reboot, but
no joy.


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dewey99
 
"dewey99" <dewey99@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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>
> WinXP - I found out I was running out of HD space, so I started digging
> to find files that I can free up. When I right-click on C:\Winnt in
> windows explorer and click on properties, it shows 38 GB in 37349 files.
> However, if I select all contents of Winnt, then right-click and hit
> properties, it shows 6.9 GB in 35593 files. I'm not so worried about
> the file count mismatch, but the size mismatch has me dead in the water.
>
> I have a shared folder on the network that attempts to sync up each
> time I log in - I killed that process this morning (had to hard reboot),
> so I'm pretty sure that has something to do with my situation. I assume
> it's a bad file allocation, but I'm not sure what I can do short of
> reimaging the drive (not a realistic solution at the moment). Any
> ideas?
>
> - dewey
>
>
> --
> dewey99

Nothing is "misallocated" but you are not fully aware of what
you're storing where. Use one of these tools to find out:
DriveUse:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/
 
"dewey99" <dewey99@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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>
> WinXP - I found out I was running out of HD space, so I started digging
> to find files that I can free up. When I right-click on C:\Winnt in
> windows explorer and click on properties, it shows 38 GB in 37349 files.
> However, if I select all contents of Winnt, then right-click and hit
> properties, it shows 6.9 GB in 35593 files. I'm not so worried about
> the file count mismatch, but the size mismatch has me dead in the water.
>

Unless you have enabled the display of hidden and system files, your
selecting the files in the folder is omitting these files (but the folder
size will include them). The difference looks about right.

> I have a shared folder on the network that attempts to sync up each
> time I log in - I killed that process this morning (had to hard reboot),
> so I'm pretty sure that has something to do with my situation. I assume
> it's a bad file allocation, but I'm not sure what I can do short of
> reimaging the drive (not a realistic solution at the moment). Any
> ideas?
>
> - dewey
>
>
> --
> dewey99
 
The problem sat in C:\Winnt\CSC - there were 8 directories in there d1 -
d8, each with several GB of data. I used DriveUse from 'DS Software'
(http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html) as
recommended by Pegasus (THANK YOU!!). I have Show hidden files and
folders selected, but Win Explorer still does not show the CSC folder.
DriveUse does. I can type the path into Win Explorer just fine...

I deleted the contents of these dirs from the command line, CSC is
client-side cache, so not sure if anything is hosed, but hey, I've got
30GB of space that I didn't have before. Thanks to all!


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dewey99
 
On Jul 11, 7:12 pm, dewey99 <dewe...@mailinator.com> wrote:
> The problem sat in C:\Winnt\CSC - there were 8 directories in there d1 -
> d8, each with several GB of data. I used DriveUse from 'DS Software'
> (http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html) as
> recommended by Pegasus (THANK YOU!!). I have Show hidden files and
> folders selected, but Win Explorer still does not show the CSC folder.
> DriveUse does. I can type the path into Win Explorer just fine...
>
> I deleted the contents of these dirs from the command line, CSC is
> client-side cache, so not sure if anything is hosed, but hey, I've got
> 30GB of space that I didn't have before. Thanks to all!
>
> --
> dewey99

I am curious about this \CSC folder. I am running Windows-XP pro SP2,
fully updated. The CSC folder in my computer is C:\WINDOWS\CSC\ and it
is very much visible in Explorer along with *empty* sub-folders \d1 to
\d8, and two files named 00000001 and 00000002 of 64 bytes eadch. I
don't see any C:\Winnt\, Why this difference?
 
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