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    lost 130GB of space from my HDD all of a sudden?!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sublime313, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. sublime313

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    i have a 320GB hdd, which up until today showed around 130GB of free space... as of right now it shows 1.8GB free out of nowhere! earlier i deleted a large torrent download (that actually never completed but showed as 2 or 3 GB file. i ran ccleaner, and it showed stuck on this file with some name like $3GU4J.rar. I exited ccleaner, rebooted, defragged, cleaned registly, and tried multiple times to run ccleaner and it would keep getting stuck on this 1 file. then i noticed the HDD showing only 1.8GB free..

    i need some instruction as i have no idea what to do. i am going to run a HDD diagnostic thru BIOS tonight when i go to bed. other than that, any ideas??? im clueless.
     
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    i just did a system restore to yesterday and the problem is still the same. i run ccleaner again and it gets stuck on that same file. also, when ccleaner is trying to 'delete' that file my entire system runs slow
     
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    well, i downloaded a program called WinDirStat, and looked inside my "C:/$RECYCLE...." directory which i couldnt figure out how to find on my own (i'm a relative vista newbie). and, yep, it showed as being a 131GB file.. i deleted it within WinDirStat, and all of my freespace is now showing again... if only you could give rep to yourself lol.
     
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    Good job figuring this out on your own, and in about 25 minutes to boot.
     
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    I'll do it for you ;) +1

    Good job on that, mate.
     
    Dragunov-21, Mar 24, 2009
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