hd not seeing free space.

BumbleB · 25-07-2010 6:59pm #1

Ran out of space on hard drive deleted 4 gig of programs ,disk isn't seeing the free space ,any ideas ???>

quaidox · 25-07-2010 7:05pm

maybe the deleted files are in the recycle bin and you need to empty it to free up the space?

BumbleB · 25-07-2010 7:12pm

quaidox wrote: »

maybe the deleted files are in the recycle bin and you need to empty it to free up the space?

their not ,thanks anyway.

ED E · 25-07-2010 7:18pm

Have you rebooted?

BumbleB · 25-07-2010 7:20pm

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

Have you rebooted?

yes ,thanks.

RogerThis · 25-07-2010 7:31pm

Have you any other partitions on the computer?

Could you post a screen shot of "my computer" in "details" view so you can see the sizes?

ED E · 25-07-2010 7:53pm

try running defrag "X": /a

May just be glitching and not updating.

Or, is this vista? Shadowcopies could have been created in the new space.

Yourself · 25-07-2010 8:06pm

BumbleB wrote: »

Ran out of space on hard drive deleted 4 gig of programs ,disk isn't seeing the free space ,any ideas ???>

Did you delete programs? instead of uninstalling them? :eek:

otherwise

kick it?

Yourself · 26-07-2010 11:30pm

Did you get sorted?

BumbleB · 27-07-2010 1:18pm

Yourself wrote: »

Did you delete programs? instead of uninstalling them? :eek:

otherwise

kick it?

Nope I uninstalled the programs. This is my backup computer which as slow as the people who work in the car tax office. My other computer is broke as well.I'm excellent at fixing PC's but this has me.I'll think I'll defrag the disk today.

Mr. Presentable · 27-07-2010 1:27pm

Check they are gone from program files, that the folders are not still there. Also, some games also create data files in my documents, for example, Civ and Football Manager I think do this.

Gruaig · 27-07-2010 2:09pm

have you tried running chkdsk /f
?

hd not seeing free space.

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