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Lost space on 300 gig external drive
I have a 300 gig external drive that I use for backups. When I list the folders on the drive and their size, I come up with just under a 100 gigs of used space. The drive shows that I have approx 23 gigs of space left before the drive is full. So here is the question, which one of you guys has my other 170 gigs of storage space. ;-) Thanks for any help.
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Lost space on 300 gig external drive
If I look at the properties of my backup, it might display 0 bytes used. If I double click on the folder then go through the UAC prompt and continue through the folders I later will show much more than 0 bytes used for the same backup folder.
The missing gigs is because they are not being calculated for folders that require permission to access first. "rq" wrote in message ... I have a 300 gig external drive that I use for backups. When I list the folders on the drive and their size, I come up with just under a 100 gigs of used space. The drive shows that I have approx 23 gigs of space left before the drive is full. So here is the question, which one of you guys has my other 170 gigs of storage space. ;-) Thanks for any help. Richard |
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Lost space on 300 gig external drive
I have a similar problem. My backup drive shows only 4.86 MB free of 298 GB.
I understand what Bender is saying but how did this happen? Doesn't the backup overwrite the previous backup files everytime a backup is run? Or, does it keep adding an additional more recent copy everytime backup is run. If the latter is the case should I just delete a bunch of the oldest backups on my backup drive? If so, how do I tell which ones are the largest? Thank you, Ed "Bender" wrote: If I look at the properties of my backup, it might display 0 bytes used. If I double click on the folder then go through the UAC prompt and continue through the folders I later will show much more than 0 bytes used for the same backup folder. The missing gigs is because they are not being calculated for folders that require permission to access first. "rq" wrote in message ... I have a 300 gig external drive that I use for backups. When I list the folders on the drive and their size, I come up with just under a 100 gigs of used space. The drive shows that I have approx 23 gigs of space left before the drive is full. So here is the question, which one of you guys has my other 170 gigs of storage space. ;-) Thanks for any help. Richard |
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Lost space on 300 gig external drive
Disable system restore and reboot. -- SCSIraidGURU Michael A. McKenney 'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com) Supermicro X7DWA-N server board pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons 16GB DDR667 SAS RAID eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card |
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Lost space on 300 gig external drive
Well, I don't know what any of that means...does anyone else have any ideas
for a computer dummie? "SCSIraidGURU" wrote: Disable system restore and reboot. -- SCSIraidGURU Michael A. McKenney 'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com) Supermicro X7DWA-N server board pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons 16GB DDR667 SAS RAID eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card |
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Lost space on 300 gig external drive
Ed wrote:
Well, I don't know what any of that means...does anyone else have any ideas for a computer dummie? Disable System Resto Click the Start orb Click "Help and Support" (remember this one for future use) Search for" System Restore" Choose Number 2 ==== Reboot: Restart your computer "SCSIraidGURU" wrote: Disable system restore and reboot. -- SCSIraidGURU Michael A. McKenney 'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com) Supermicro X7DWA-N server board pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons 16GB DDR667 SAS RAID eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card |