Hard drive reading free space incorrectly

[Ultimage1]

I have a western digital 80gig hd that is reading the free space incorrectly. It's new, I bought it mainly for encoding. So here's what happened. I encoded my first 50 min VHS vid and it came out to a 21gig file. Anyway I compressed it down to about 450mb's but when I deleted the huge file the HD still thinks there's only 50.8 gigs free and I don't know why. This is a new HD, nothing on it and no errors. I trying defrag but that didn't do anything. Does anyone know what is going on or what I can do to fix this problem? thanks

[Über~PhLuBB]

Try looking around for other incarnations of the file. It's possible it's stored in a cache somewhere, and is taking up massive space.

When I got my KR7A-133, XP 1600 and PC2100, I tried to just reinstall Windows and go on with my computing without a format. Even though I installed Windows over the folder it was in before, I somehow lost about 10 GB of space somewhere. I ended up formatting and reinstalling from scratch (after backing up of course!) which I should have done right off the bat, it would have saved me alot of stress and anger.

[dew042]

did you just put it in the trash, or did you empty the trash too? just because it got into the trash doesn't mean its deleted. i bet you will find the old file sitting in your trash can still..

hope that does it...
dew.

[Ultimage1]

Thanks, i'm not exactly sure what the problem is and apparently I'm the only one with it. The thing is, this is a slave HD with absolutely nothing on it besides that 1 file that I already deleted. So there's no point in looking to delete other files then it's already empty. I tried scandisk but it didn't find any problems

And I dont know why people keep telling me check the trash. I mean you can't even put a 21gig file into the recycle bin, only permantly delete the file.

[dew042]

Originally posted by Ultimage1
Thanks, i'm not exactly sure what the problem is and apparently I'm the only one with it. The thing is, this is a slave HD with absolutely nothing on it besides that 1 file that I already deleted. So there's no point in looking to delete other files then it's already empty. I tried scandisk but it didn't find any problems

And I dont know why people keep telling me check the trash. I mean you can't even put a 21gig file into the recycle bin, only permantly delete the file.

well, in that case its easy to reformat.... go to it....

dew.

[Ultimage1]

yes i know formatting will fix it, but this was the second time I've had this problem that's why I'm trying to figure out why. It seems to only happen with files over 2 gigs, the free space is reported incorrectly. The thing is, although it is empty now, when I start capturing other files I want to be able to keep files on the HD, not keep reformatting it after every capture.

I guess I could just partition off 30 gigs (to be safe) but I'm still losing some space which could be put to better use.

[Batman@]

Originally posted by Ultimage1
yes i know formatting will fix it, but this was the second time I've had this problem that's why I'm trying to figure out why. It seems to only happen with files over 2 gigs, the free space is reported incorrectly. The thing is, although it is empty now, when I start capturing other files I want to be able to keep files on the HD, not keep reformatting it after every capture.

I guess I could just partition off 30 gigs (to be safe) but I'm still losing some space which could be put to better use.

That used to happen to me to, just make sure you empty your recycle bin, and if its still in correct, run scandisk, it always fixed mine.