Hi everybody I have an interesting problem with xp not reporting freed up disk space correctly on certain partitions. I have seen references on the web to the same problem but never any solution.
What happens is that I can delete files (via shift-delete not to the recycle bin). The file is gone but the free space remains the same. This will go on for some random amount of time before suddenly hey presto all the free space is suddenly reported to be there - and this "missing" space runs into gigabytes.
If I drop to a command prompt and delete the file that way the file goes yet the free space remains the same. However this is where it gets interesting because a chkdsk stiill reports the same number of files as before the one i deleted.
ie 300 files delete one dir reports 299 yet chkdsk reports 300 still (actually it reports more becaues of the hidden files but you get the point).
Neither Microsofts own or Norton disk doctor reports any errors.
Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas what might be happening?
My next step might be to write a small program to call the getdiskfree function from microsoft's API but I would expect to get the same result as explorer as this must be using the same call.
Thanks for any help
What happens is that I can delete files (via shift-delete not to the recycle bin). The file is gone but the free space remains the same. This will go on for some random amount of time before suddenly hey presto all the free space is suddenly reported to be there - and this "missing" space runs into gigabytes.
If I drop to a command prompt and delete the file that way the file goes yet the free space remains the same. However this is where it gets interesting because a chkdsk stiill reports the same number of files as before the one i deleted.
ie 300 files delete one dir reports 299 yet chkdsk reports 300 still (actually it reports more becaues of the hidden files but you get the point).
Neither Microsofts own or Norton disk doctor reports any errors.
Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas what might be happening?
My next step might be to write a small program to call the getdiskfree function from microsoft's API but I would expect to get the same result as explorer as this must be using the same call.
Thanks for any help