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Question

Hard Drive Capacity issues

Dec 30, 2014 5:33PM PST

I have a old xp computer so i decided to check whats on the HDD. So i connected it to my windows 8 computer. I checked it and i had 3 mb left. I was confused because I have cleaned my HDD out a while back. So i check to see if i have a file taking up alot of space in total i am only using 27 gb. but its a 200gb HDD. There was only 3 hidden folders does to were included in the 27 gb count. I checked the hard drives partitions and volumes and it was only recovery and the main thing so if there is any help please reply I will answer some more questions leading to this answer.

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Re: hard drive capacity
Dec 30, 2014 5:41PM PST

Since we can't see and examine the drive, I'm afraid you're on your own here. What does chkdsk say about the partition?

Kees

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You could try to make a boot disk with "gparted"
Dec 30, 2014 6:45PM PST

and it should show good information about your partitions. It's a free utility. Don't use any of it's tools on the drive, however. I use that one and one from Acronis and either will provide you with partition and free space information in graphical form. There are many reasons that a Windows OS won't give you complete partition information or show you all files and folders.

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try disk management
Dec 31, 2014 8:05AM PST

with the drive plugged in, go into disk managment and see what it says about the drive. also how long ago did you clean it out?