A cousin has a strange problem. She has a 40 Gbytes HD and Windows XP PRO. Everything was working fine until a few weeks ago, when the space in her HD began to shrink. Even without recording anything on it, she noticed a reduction in the available size as the days passed by. Today she has only 170 Mbytes of space available and now comes the strangest part: summing up all the alocated HD space, she has used only 7 Gbytes. But instead of having available 33 Gbytes (40-7), she has only 170 Mbytes. I have already checked the HD and it is working properly. SMART does not report any problem and it also passes thru the regular Windows check.
I tried with ZTreeWin and got the same information: used space of 7 Gbytes, HD size of 40 Gbytes and available space of 170 Mbytes.
Any hint?
I tried with ZTreeWin and got the same information: used space of 7 Gbytes, HD size of 40 Gbytes and available space of 170 Mbytes.
Any hint?