Ok. Using Win 7 os . This outboard drive was so fragmented that I deleted the backups that were on it and then ran defrag. But now it show under properties that there are still about 200 gig of something there, but the few files I left ( Norton recovery stuff ) are very small. Nothing else shows up! No other files. What is taking up so much space and can I reclaim it?
Use windirstat it will show you whats taking all the space.
SOURCE: FRAGMENTED FILES IN DRIVE
Make sure ur hdd is RAW format.To change it from RAW to NTFS is dificult.Take that hdd and put on another pc and make it as SLAVE remove all jumpers and go to the MENAGMENT CONSOLE.Firs make it ad primary then delte .After that make it as LOGICAL DRIVE AND DELTE IT AGAIN.Again make it as PRIMARY AND FORMAT IT.I THINK IT SHOULD WORK.Let me know if u got help?
SOURCE: creating space on external hard drive
When you move files to the Trash on a Mac you are just marking the files to be deleted next time you empty the trash. You are not actually deleting them when you move them to the trash. They will continue to take up space on your drive until you empty the trash.
Emptying the trash will delete everything in the Trash folder regardless of which drive it is stored on. If you have files you are not certain you want to delete that are located on your internal drive, open the Trash folder and move them temporarily out (like to the desk top), then empty the trash to delete all the ones on the external drive that you do want to clear off.
You will see that the free space has increased on the external drive. Now put back in the trash the files from your internatl drive you were thinking of deleting but not certain you wnated to (if that is your reason for not wanting to empty the trash. I'm not clear on why you would not want to delete them.)
SOURCE: drive info inaccessible
just simply go to property and here is disk cleanup option....just run it....may be problem is due to some file are larger that is into the hidden folder......
unhide folder option and then see .....
SOURCE: backup folder shows as empty
Have you tried showing hidden and system files?
In the Windows Explorer, go to the Tools menu and select Options or Folder Options.
In the View tab, scroll in the list and make sure show hidden files is selected. You can also unselect the 'hide system files' option.
That will show you anything on the disk!
Jules
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Ok, so I got a message telling me I need to add more detail but when I click 'there' I come here but can't edit or add to the question? So here goes: I'm running win7 on an HP Pavillion. Use Norton to back up files to an Iomega outboard terabyte drive. It was horribly fraged so bacly it couldn't seem to fix much so I delete the backup files but when I then looked at the disk, there were still about 197 GIG of space in the system voluume file.... why is there so much space being used there and can I reclaim it? Is is also 100% fragmented. Please help? I'm about to reformat the thing and hope for the best.
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