Hdd Room

[Mr. Elmo]

i made a partition for a anime on my hdd. it was 6 gig big....now that i've deleted all those anime except for like 4. i still have 4GB used....but i dont know what its used for. i only put anime on this drive and like i said, i deleted all but 4. whats taking up all my space?

[4th gen]

do you have norton systemworks or a similar program?

you may need to clean out your protected recycle bin...?

[Mr. Elmo]

no norton for me....what is the protected recycling bin....how do i get to it.

[4th gen]

Originally posted by Mr. Elmo@19 January 2004 - 04:11
no norton for me....what is the protected recycling bin....how do i get to it.
the protected recycle bin is normally associated with norton products and is basically a second recycle bin...

if you accidently delete a file, then delete the file from the recycle bin, norton protected recycle bin should let you recover the file without having to resort to other software such as easy ontrack recovery or encase...

if you don't have norton, don't worry about the protected recycle bin, you won't have one :)

is it possible there are any hidden files on the drive?

go into your drive, go to the tools menu>folder options>view>check "show hidden and system files" then check the drive again...

[Mr. Elmo]

there were 5 gig of files that i deleted but ended up in a place called "recycler"....found out by looking at the defraging report. what is the "recycler" suppose to do?


oh my space is right again after i deleted those 5GB

[4th gen]

Originally posted by Mr. Elmo@19 January 2004 - 04:34
there were 5 gig of files that i deleted but ended up in a place called "recycler"....found out by looking at the defraging report. what is the "recycler" suppose to do?


oh my space is right again after i deleted those 5GB
did you empty/purge the recycle bin?