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Over 150GB of data uncounted for
I have an external terabyte drive that is used to store files on. There are only 375.6GB of actual data on the drive but 533.7GB is showing up as being used. So there is about 150GB of magic fairy dust hiding somewhere on the drive. I have tried defragging, ccleaner, windirstat (treesize), changing the recycle bin size, and checking for weird partitions, but there is nothing out of the ordinary. There are no viruses or anything like that and I just installed Windows 7 32bit. And this has nothing to do with the gigabyte gibibyte conversion. Total space is showing up as 931GB and I expect that, but I mean almost 160GB of that total is uncounted for.
Would having indexing on or the allocation size have anything to do with this?
Last edited by robert112; 30 Jul 2010 at 07:02.