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Old April 8th, 2003, 01:21 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Seagate Barracuda Problem!

I have a Seagate Barracuda 40GB hard drive. It's been very nice to me untill yesterday when I went to defragment my hard drive. It tells me that 27GB are being used. I knew this was impossible because I recently formatted and I haven't installed much. I went and calculated my Documents and Windows and Program Files. They all came up to 7.48GB! What is going on? I am currently running XP Pro. AAARGH!!!!
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Old April 8th, 2003, 01:25 PM     #2 (permalink)
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First thing Id do is run a virus scan...if youve already got antivirus on it and it hasnt caught anything Id go to www.antivirus.com and run the free online scan.

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Old April 8th, 2003, 01:25 PM     #3 (permalink)
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what file system are you using? fat32 is very inefficient in large volumes.

also do you have system restore enabled...that is a real space hog.
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I dont have the net at my house. So i know its not a virus problem.
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Old April 8th, 2003, 01:30 PM     #5 (permalink)
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I use NTFS and the system restore is set to a little less than a gig.
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Is explorer set to show all files (even hidden and system ones), and if you do a search for files, are there any large ones in there?
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I dont have the net at my house. So i know its not a virus problem.

Just a pointer: any floppy disks from an infected PC, any CDRs burned with infected software, etc..... these all can infect a PC, so the 'net is not the only vector for virii/trojans. Any chance there is a program running somewhere which is mirroring the data for 'safe crash recovery'? Aside from restore.
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Yes show all files are on. What I did is select the documents and settings folder and the Program files folder and also the Windows folder. I then right clicked to get the properties and it counts all files and the Size of all the folders collectively. They only count up to 7.48Gb.
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I haven't used any floppies or any burned software since my format. Would that "Safe Crash Recovery " show up in my task manager? I'm pretty sure that I dont have anything like that.
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