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Hard drive space inconsistency

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 1:28 pm
by xev
I am having trouble finding out why my hdd space is different depending on where i look at it. Under my computer, i see 186gb. When I run spacesniffer or windirstat, i see only about 40gb.
In Computer Mgt, it is also 186gb.

Re: Hard drive space inconsistency

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:06 pm
by washu
Are you talking about free, used or total space? Run Windirstat as an administrator or else it cannot see everything. Even as admin it can't normally see a few things, so if you have a lot of system restores or previous versions that would explain the missing space.

Re: Hard drive space inconsistency

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:05 pm
by xev
Thank you.
It found a backup that i completely forgot I did. And I remember that it's not even complete since there wasn't enough space to complete properly.