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Disk Drive Reporting as full
My disk drive is reporting as full. Checking it with WinDirStat, I have about 200G free. How do I get windows to realize its wrong?
My disk drive is reporting as full. Checking it with WinDirStat, I have about 200G free. How do I get windows to realize its wrong?
When a hard drive reports as full it will almost always be correct. On the other hand, the results reported by programs such as WinDirStat are at best only an approximation. For a large number of reasons the numbers shown can be off by a wide margin. With large modern operating systems this is impossible to avoid.
You really are out of disk space. Others can best advise on how to deal with this.
Some were cut and paste, some were deleted.
Ran chkdsk
Empty recycle bin
Rebooted
Ran disk cleanup
Still no space
Hi jrisebo,
Have you tried defragmenting to see if that makes a difference? I really can't understand why there has been no change in the free disk space. I assume that you have checked that the moved items are no longer there?
I hope this helps!
Yes, I have confirmed. Just deleted a 27 gig I tunes folder, still no change.
CHKDSK Found some errors, and also reported that I had about 150Gigs free. When restarted, still showing full.
Think its a malware or something I guess.
My disk is a SSD drive, says not to defrag?
Check with more than one prog. Check with Disk Analyser Pro.
My Drive:
Windows Disk Management
MiniTool Partition Wizard
Disk Analyser Pro: Free for Personal use Disk Analyzer Pro - Hard Disk Space Usage Analyzer And Manager
Yea something is screwy. Windows says its a 476GB allocation. other shows it at 203GB. When I delete something, it then reports the new size. Gotta Love Microsoft. See attached.
Running Defrag will show you approx. what percentage of free space you have, by its graphic display. That should give you the most accurate estimate of how much free space is on the drive.