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Missing 200 GB of Hard Disk space after trying to create partition
Hello everyone.
I have an HP Pavilion DV6 with a 600 GB hard disk (Windows 7 Home Premium). Last weekend I tried to create a new partition, so I can save some of my files in case I have to re-install the OS or another issue.
Anyways I started the process, right click on C, clicked on "shrink volume", picked the size of the new partition (200 GB) and then "shrink". After a couple of minutes I got an error message, I dont remember exactly what was the error to be honest, it said something about I/O device error.
So after that and until today the size of my C drive changed from 576 GB to some 380 GB (as you could see, those 200 GB of the new partition I wanted to create are completely missing). I already ran chkdsk and some other software to try to recover that missed space without success.
Any ideas on how to fix this thing without formating the disk? Your help will be very appreciated.
I attached the screens of my explorer window, my disk manager window & windirstat (notice on disk manager how it says C: 381 GB above and then below the graphic shows 576 GB on C)