Harddive not showing accurate free space

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my secondary drive, which is a 120 gig maxtor, is showing 2 gigs free, when i have deleted over 10gigs of information on it. Anyone know how to fix this other then formating it? becuase thats alot of data to move :/
 
Umm.. let's get back to basics..

If you're using a windows OS, have you emptied the recycle bin?
 
guess i should of said the basics lol, using window xp pro, i have emptied the recycle bin etc, and checked the drive for errors and such. i haven't tried defragmenting yet.
 
well if i have to format it, what is the best program for making huge images of drives so i can just put all the info back on?
 
Do the disk clean up in windows xp, it might pick up some old files that never got deleted
 
well it seems to be working ok now.. i can delete files and it shows the correct free space usage..
 
what was your solution? That way if someone else runs into this problem they will be able to fix it.
 
i rebooted, and deleted a large file and it started working fine.. i dunno what caused the problem or what fixed it really.
 
Are you running with NTFS or FAT32? I take it you run NTFS because of the size of the drive, but you never know. :)

The point is I've seen this problem with FAT32 drives. The space is there, it just reads wrong.
 
it was NTFS it might of had somthing to do with a temp file or such i'm not really sure to be honest.
 
all you do is disk management tools, check drive for errors, and it should pick it up and fix it.
 

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