Hard drive...15GB, but 28?

[Koopsta Knicca]

Heya guys.

I just installed another 40 GB hard drive that I found in my garage. The thing is, when I right click on it and click on properties, it says that the 28GB out of 40GB is occupied. But when I go to the drive, select all the files including the hidden ones, it only says 14.8. What gives?

[dell8200]

????? reformat the drive and see

[Midknyte]

are you sure the drive is good?

[Sterling_Aug]

That drive must have one huge swap file and tons of temp files.

[Koopsta Knicca]

Ok, I'mma try reformating it.

[Koopsta Knicca]

I can't format, some files are in use. Winzip is one of them. There's 2 .DLLs that I can't delete, and I don't know what program is using them. I even tried booting into safe mode, but I still can't delete.

And there's some files I downloaded from a file sharing program a year back. They used to be video files, now I don't know what they are. I can't delete them. Or delete the folder they're in. I can't even click on em and choose properties. I've scanned them for viruses, but none detected.

I should just make a boot disk and format the drive from there, eh?

[ukulele]

Use Zap, kill disk, the manufacturers utility or fdisk to repartition and reformat. Formating from within the windows environment is not a good idea. Half the time windows format can't get a floppy disk to format right.

[Koopsta Knicca]

Heh heh, yeah, you're right. I'll try out the products you stated.

[bob05]

If you have Windows ME or XP, check the System Restore size.