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    20 % of my external drives have gone missing?!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by papagoejoe, Jan 12, 2008.

  1. papagoejoe

    papagoejoe Newbie

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    He guys, I was hoping you could help me out....

    I know it sounds strange, but about a month ago 20 % of all my external drives disapired.

    128 mb USB stick suddonly displays a capacity of 94 mb and 500 gb external harddrive displays a capacity of around 420 gb.

    I've checked, and there is no pagefile on either, and system recovery is disabled...

    WTF?!?!?!

    Does anyone have a clue what the f... is going on??

    I'm running win xp home on an inspiron 6400 laptop, and i'm set up to view system files etc...
     
    papagoejoe, Jan 12, 2008
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  2. j_hallgren

    j_hallgren Notebook Enthusiast

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    It may not be the case, but I had a similar issue with a thumb drive, and it was only via an alternate file manager XYplorer that I realized that it was the Recycled bin on THAT drive that was taking up space! Win Expl doesn't show it the same way so you don't know what it's taking. When I reduced the RB, I got the space back...
     
    j_hallgren, Jan 12, 2008
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