Disk Drive Reporting as full

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    Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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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?
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  2. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
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    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.
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  3. Posts : 13
    Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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    LMiller7 said:
    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.

    I dont agree. I moved about 100G of files off the hard drive yesterday. Still no change in what its reporting.
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  4. Posts : 6,021
    Win 7 HP SP1 64-bit Vista HB SP2 32-bit Linux Mint 18.3
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    Hi jrisebo,

    jrisebo said:
    I moved about 100G of files off the hard drive yesterday. Still no change in what its reporting.
    When you say you moved the files, did you cut and paste them?
    Have you restarted your computer since doing the move yesterday?
    Have you tried running Disk Cleanup?

    I hope this helps!
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Some were cut and paste, some were deleted.

    Ran chkdsk
    Empty recycle bin
    Rebooted
    Ran disk cleanup
    Still no space
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    Win 7 HP SP1 64-bit Vista HB SP2 32-bit Linux Mint 18.3
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    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!
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  7. Posts : 13
    Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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       #7

    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?
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  8. Posts : 7,055
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
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    Check with more than one prog. Check with Disk Analyser Pro.
    My Drive:

    Windows Disk Management

    Disk Drive Reporting as full-a31-08-2018-19-58-49.jpg

    MiniTool Partition Wizard

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    Disk Analyser Pro: Free for Personal use Disk Analyzer Pro - Hard Disk Space Usage Analyzer And Manager

    Disk Drive Reporting as full-c31-08-2018-20-11-23.jpg
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  9. Posts : 13
    Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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    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.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Disk Drive Reporting as full-capture.jpg  
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  10. Posts : 1,784
    Linux Mint 18.2 xfce 64-bit (VMWare host) / Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit (VMWare guest)
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    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.
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