Strange HDD behaviour

[tech291083]

Hi Friends,

I have Windows 7 Home Basic 64 bit PC. Fully updated as long as the occasional updates come by and a local paid security solution call eScan Internet Security Suite, which I have been happily using for a number of years now. Few days back, when I created two partitions namely MyData and PersonalData. I restarted the system and I noticed that both newly created partitions were showing some used space, which made no sense to me at all as I never had put any data there myself. Both these partitions have only two files on them namely #0eScanProtected and #1eScanProtected with each of them worth 13KB only. How can one understand this strange behavior? My HDD is perfectly alright with no bad sectors at all as of now. Thanks.

 

[samuria]

Thats normal as a bin will be put on there and other hd stuff

 

[Megahertz07]

Two things are strange:
- Both files were created on 10-08-2018
- With only two files (~26KB) the disk usage is almost 7GB. There MUST be hidden data on the partition?

Is Explorer set to show hidden files an to show known extensions?

 

[tech291083]

Two things are strange:
- Both files were created on 10-08-2018
- With only two files (~26KB) the disk usage is almost 7GB. There MUST be hidden data on the partition?

Is Explorer set to show hidden files an to show known extensions?

Sure, I will try to find hidden files, if any, many thanks.

 

[torchwood]

hi
suspect the 7gb are the system generated profile requirements
PerfLogs
Program Files
Program Files x86
Windows
ProgramData,
Users.
the date is likely the original install date of the AV

 

[BrainDamage]

Go to Folder Options, second tab and uncheck "Hide protected system files (not recommended)". It will ask you to confirm that you want to show those files. Confirm then click OK/Apply Probably it's not those antivirus files, but you have a large hidden pagefile.sys