Stupid Hard Drive Problem

Reeves · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 15.58

I'm trying to make some room on my second hard drive but it's taking the piss. I moved over 5gb worth of video to my other drive and the space remained unchanged.. except with 4kb more being added onto it. I've just deleted about 800mb worth of music and it's only got about 400mb gone.

What is causing this?
Thanks

EDIT: Just deleted over 8gb worth of stuff and the space remaining is still about 400mb.

Pete · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 16.32

have you emptied the recycle bin?

Reeves · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 16.34

Yes, but I only made space by a couple of gigabytes. I still need to find over 8gb more space of which I deleted...

Stuart* · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 16.40

Did you happen to notice the size of the recycle bin before you emptied it?

cdd · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 16.42

Maybe try defragging.

Reeves · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 16.55

I didn't take note of it Hyma but i'm sure it was less then the amount I actually deleted.
cdd, I tried defragging this morning, but because I haven't got over 15% free it finished in seconds... n did fcuk all.
Mark, i'm planning on getting a new hard drive soon anyway. Do you know if it's overloading hard drives that can brake them?

Ronnie Rowlands · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 17.22

Reeves wrote:Do you know if it's overloading hard drives that can brake them?

cdd · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 17.35

Well try formatting the disc. If the hard drive is also the one Windows is installed on, you'll need to create an MS Dos Bootable Floppy to be able to run the format utility without involving the hard disc - a reinstallation of Windows will be required.

Reeves · Thu 01 Nov, 2007 22.15

I'll have to format it when I get a new drive, cdd. This is the drive I use to backup my files - formatting THAT will be a tad awkward with nothing else to back it up onto at the moment. I'll just have to grin and bare it 'til I can get hold of one.