missing space on hard drive

j.col · 8 Mar 2011 at 16:40

need some help.
i had a look on my friends pc and he is missing some hard drive space.

its on a partition.
size is 187 GB
there is 2 folders on it with a with 25gb and b with 20gb
but the hard drive is only showing 99.4gb free :confused:

99.4 + 25 + 20 = 144.4gb so where is the other 43gb?

bledd · 8 Mar 2011 at 16:42

system restore

j.col · 8 Mar 2011 at 16:51

hi bledd,
its not on the same drive as windows.
also i used the option to view hidden files but there is nothing showing

maj · 8 Mar 2011 at 17:39

Unallocated space?

SparkyG · 8 Mar 2011 at 18:36

have you looked at the drive via disk management?

j.col · 8 Mar 2011 at 19:17

had a look in disc management.
its just saying healthy (primary partition) its in the ntfs file system
in here its saying
capacity - 188gb, free space - 98.2 %free 52%

but there is only 2 folders with 25 and 30gb on this partition

i downloaded treesize free and had a look.
it shows the 2 folders with 55.540 total used.
29.926 mb folder 1
25.631 mb folder 2
0.0 mb $recycle.bin
0.0 mb system volume information [acess is denied]

FoxEye · 8 Mar 2011 at 19:41

try re-sizing it with a gparted live-cd?