hard drive problem !!! Please help

[kenny64]

Hi.. I have an serious problem!!!

For some reason my hard drive don't get the space after i delete something i have 20 mb left and when i delete a game that takes about 1.8 gb i get 5 extra mb (

please help me.. Im desperate!!!

 

[wolluf]

Don't quite understand.

You've got 20mb disk space left.

You deleted a game (how - uninstall, or just deleted the folder? Not in recycle bin? If uninstall, have you checked that it worked?) which took up c. 1.8GB

You've now got 25mb free?

If the game really took up 1.8GB and its definitely gone/not in recycle bin/not on another drive/partition, try this app

http://www.lpacomputers.telinco.co.uk/ddsetup.zip

to check out what is taking up your disk space.

 

[kenny64]

it's a new problem.. My hard drive is 120 gb i have 20mb left on the hard drive.. when i delete a game that takes about 1.8 gb i get 5 mb free space on my hard drive

 

[kenny64]

i deleted the folder using shift+del

 

[jward52]

If that's how you delete programs, then it's no wonder you don't have much free space! Uninstall them with each app's uninstaller or Windows add/remove programs, don't just delete the folder they are in! You must have thousands of orphaned files left behind on that drive! Yipes! Use an app such as disk cleanup to get rid of the junk and you'll find you'll have GBs of free space, not MBs.

 

[kenny64]

no, it's like my hard drive don't refresh at all..
i had formated after i installed the game so it weren't installed in that windows..

 

[happydownloader]

Check that you don't have Norton AV looking after your recycling bin
If you right click over your recycling bin and go to properties you should see what the settings are

 

[kenny64]

i did have it.. thanks for the tip.. But how do i get the disc space that i lost ?

 

[wolluf]

Did you try running that utility I suggested - it should at least give you idea where all the space is being used!