Harddrive not reading correct free space under XP Pro

[cookiemonster[MoA]]

I have 4 harddrives in my system, 120gig SATA, 160gig SATA, 80gig SATA, and a 40gig IDE.

The 120 is my C Drive and the 160 is for my games and backups. The other 2 are different OS's.

I use Norton Ghost and make backups to the 160 drive. I made a new backup lastnight and it was about 48.5gig. So it was only showing that i have 13.4gig of free space on that drive so i deleted the old backup and it still shows there is 13.4gb free. I selected all foldes on the 160 drive and it adds up to 91.0gig so that means i should have about 57.0gig's free. So i cut the backup folder off of that harddrive and but it on another drive and the 160 still shows there is 13.4gig's free. I then tryed to put the backup folder back onto the 160 drive and it said i do not have enough room to move it there.

I ran Check Disc and it still shows 13.4 free. I tryed to defrag the drive but it said i have to have 15% free to perform a defrag.

I hope someone can help me with this because i do not feel like formating that drive.

Thanks,

cookiemonster[MoA]

[Hatefulsorrow]

Please post your specs and and tweeks that might be applyed to your system. Also Is the system fully up-to-date? IE Windows Updates and program updates, maybe even firmware?

[cookiemonster[MoA]]

Sorry about not putting the specs. I forgot,LOLHere thay are:

ABIT KV8-MAX3 Motherboard BIOS Version 25

AMD ATHLON 64 3200+ Processor

Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT DDR RAM (2x CMX512-3200C2PT)

Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 8M Cache-SATA/150 120gig 7200 RPM Harddrive(main drive)

Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA V 8M Cache-SATA/150 80gig 7200 RPM Harddrive(WINDOWS XP PRO 64 Bit Edition)

Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA V 8M Cache-SATA/150 160gig 7200 RPM Harddrive(games & backup drive)

ABIT SILURO GeFORCE 4 Ti 4600 AGP Video Card -Driver Version: Nvidia 45.23

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Sound Card

Enermax Case CS-3051L-B3A With 450w Enermax Power Supply

WINDOWS XP PRO

WINDOWS XP PRO 64 Bit Edition

DirectX 9.0c

All windows and drivers are up to date except for the video drivers because this version runs the best for my card.

[Zxian]

What about your recycle bin? System Restore? Temp files?

[svasutin]

Check for a protected recycle bin.

Ensure your folder options allow you to view hidden and system items.

Alt+Enter your drive, click disk clean up, click the 'Mo Opts' tab. In the sys restore section, click the 'clean up...' button. Then click Ok, yes, hope it doesn't hang.

also try this:

Start | Run 'cleanmgr /sageset:101'

check all except for compress; on compress, click the words, then click the option button and set it to 500 days.

Click ok

Click Start | Run 'cleanmgr /sagerun:101'

Sometimes it hangs, so you might have to End Process, but give it a minute.

if it's a recycle thing, set the reserve to 0, create a new folder/text doc, then delete it, now try to empty your recycle bin.

Run chkdsk <d>: /v /f /r /x

Then go back the next morning; this is why I'm finding 32 GB to be a nice size. Issues on one partition are checked in less than a 1/2 hour.

Nothing quite like having to reformat 160 GB, unless of course it is an in depth surface scan for data recovery.

[cookiemonster[MoA]]

Well i feel like a a$$. It was procted by Norton Protected Recycle Bin. So i purged all files and now i have my space back. Thats weard because this never happened befor but at least its fixxed now.

Thanks for the help,

[Zxian]

Bloody Norton getting it's hands into everything...

[suryad]

Bloody Norton getting it's hands into everything...

Amen

[cookiemonster[MoA]]

LOL