Computer Technical Question

[Joe Stoppinghem]

Here is an issue that has me stumped, and I would appreciate any help from the skilled persons on the site.

I have a 100 GB C drive partition on my Windows XP PC, formatted with NTFS.

When I tried to run Diskeeper Lite on the C drive to defrag the partition, it reported I had about 8 Gigs free.

I do not have video, or a large amount of pictures on my C drive, that is what my D drive is for.
Virtual memory is at 2048 MB, system restore has been turned off.

Getting to the point, I have looked in the property tab on all the root folders on the C drive and the amount shown is around 20 GB.

Even if I run the dir /s /ah and dir /s commands which which come back with about 5 gigs for hidden files and 15-20 GB for the rest.

So any suggestions to determine what the other 60 GB of files could be or where they could be located?

I'm scratching my head with this one.

Thanks

[ShadigoIzayoi]

I'm assuming you're using Diskeeper Lite 7.0 Build 418. My guess is it's because Diskeeper Lite is a pretty old program [looking at majorgeeks, that was released in October 2002] and most old programs will often not detect really big sizes of Hard drives, instead just reporting a maximum of 8GB. The one real thing I could suggest is to look for an alternative. I would personally reccommend iobit's Smart Defrag.

[Joe Stoppinghem]

Found it.

My system is a Lenovo M 57 series, which at the time of the writing I didn't feel it needed to be mentioned.

Lenovo has a feature called Rescue and Recovery.

The only way I found it was viewing files the Diskeeper Lite couldn't move.

There was a directory on the c:\ root called RRbackup.

It wouldn't show up from a command prompt or from the GUI. But when typing the command
cd \RRBackup it would reply, "access denied" and this was from an account with admin privileges.

Now that I think of it, I should have tried the attrib command to see if it would show up then.

Anyway, after I removed the program via add remove programs, I now have nearly 81 gigs of free space.
So the program was using about 73 GB for storage.

I was able to defrag, and man, it seems like a new machine, wow.

Thanks for the reply, and suggestions. I will keep them in mind for future references.

Joe