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July 22nd, 2007, 06:48 PM
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Ok so I am going to explain this as best I can but bear with me because it is sort of difficult to explain.
I am currently in the process of backing up data to reformat my primary HD. I have two HD's in my computer, one running XP and the other for data. I am clearing out some data on my other (non XP) drive so I can move over stuff from the C drive for the reformat.
Here is the problem. I had a folder on my non xp drive that was about 30GB and I burnt the contents to DVD. When I went to delete the folder it was too large to just be placed in the trash so XP prompted me to permanently delete the contents of the folder. I agreed and XP went about it's business. I left the DVD burning software open when I was deleting the folder and because the software was accessing the folder XP stoped short of total deletion. It only deleted about 7 of the 30GB and now the folder is not there anymore, but it appears most of the data is.
How can I get rid of the left over data if I can't see the folder? I need the room on my drive to hold other data on the c drive.
I hope this explanation was not too confusing.
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July 23rd, 2007, 12:25 AM
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run a scandisk or diskcheck or whatever the hell windows now calls it on the drive 
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July 23rd, 2007, 01:07 AM
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I had something similar once and the only thing I could do to fix it was to copy all of the files I still wanted off the drive to another one and reformat the messed up one. You may not have the room to do this but if you do that might be the way to go if scandisk doesn't fix it.
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July 23rd, 2007, 12:07 PM
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scandisk should find the missing files and recover them. Hopefully.....if not evereddie's solution should work! | |
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July 23rd, 2007, 01:27 PM
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So I cannot find a scandisk but I do have a disk cleanup.
It is under
start>programs>accessories>system tools
Is this equivalent?? | |
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July 23rd, 2007, 01:36 PM
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nope. go to my computer, right click the drive, properties, tools, error checking, check both off! :-D | |
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July 23rd, 2007, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by sr71000  nope. go to my computer, right click the drive, properties, tools, error checking, check both off! :-D |
Alright sweet, I will try this as soon as I get off work.
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June 2nd, 2008, 01:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sr71000 nope. go to my computer, right click the drive, properties, tools, error checking, check both off! :-D | | |
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