windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

[Guest group22]

Hi,

 

I have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4.

Windows is saying the disk was nearly full. (about 32GB used)

The disk is roughly 34GB and I didn't see any large folders or files

on it. If I look at the properties of all folders (including hidden)

the folder sizes add up to about 6GB.

This morning, I ran a utility called i.disk that displays folder size

graphically and it is only showing about 6Gb of disk space used.

I have scanned for viruses and found none.

I scanned for rootkits and it came up clean.

I ran a file system check on boot, that didn't clear it up.

 

Any ideas as to how to proceed?

 

Thanks,

Rob

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

 

"group22" <group22@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

>

> I have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4.

> Windows is saying the disk was nearly full. (about 32GB used)

> The disk is roughly 34GB and I didn't see any large folders or files

> on it. If I look at the properties of all folders (including hidden)

> the folder sizes add up to about 6GB.

> This morning, I ran a utility called i.disk that displays folder size

> graphically and it is only showing about 6Gb of disk space used.

> I have scanned for viruses and found none.

> I scanned for rootkits and it came up clean.

> I ran a file system check on boot, that didn't clear it up.

>

> Any ideas as to how to proceed?

>

> Thanks,

> Rob

>

 

Try one of these tools:

DriveUse:

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html

Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

[Guest tbone]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

I have the same problem on one of my XP machines. On an 80GB drive,

some tools say there's only 3GB left, yet all the tools I've brought

to bear so far say I've only got 40GB of files. I even tried a boot

time chkdsk, but that didn't find or fix anything. I also checked the

number of restore points, and other places where space might hide. No

luck.

 

I hope someone has an answer!

 

tbone

 

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:09:10 -0700, group22 <group22@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,

>

>I have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4.

>Windows is saying the disk was nearly full. (about 32GB used)

>The disk is roughly 34GB and I didn't see any large folders or files

>on it. If I look at the properties of all folders (including hidden)

>the folder sizes add up to about 6GB.

>This morning, I ran a utility called i.disk that displays folder size

>graphically and it is only showing about 6Gb of disk space used.

>I have scanned for viruses and found none.

>I scanned for rootkits and it came up clean.

>I ran a file system check on boot, that didn't clear it up.

>

>Any ideas as to how to proceed?

>

>Thanks,

>Rob

[Guest tbone]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

FYI - DriveUse cranked for about 10 minutes and 350,000 I/Os on this

system without displaying anything. I killed it.

 

As far as the missing free space - I have this same problem on an XP

machine. I use PowerDesk, which includes a SizeManager utility. This

and other tools showed only 40 of 80GB used, but free space shown by

all tools is only 3GB. I know about clusters and wasted space -

there's no way that can account for this much missing. I checked

system restore points, 0 length files, empty directories... nothing.

 

I did a boot-time chkdsk, but that didn't help. The only clue I have

so far is that the Defrag tool shows a huge red "fragmented" area on

the hard drive (yes, about half the space), but there aren't enough

files mentioned in the fragmentation report to explain almost 40GB

missing.

 

Any other suggestions?

 

Thanks

tbone

 

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:32:25 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com>

wrote:

>Try one of these tools:

>DriveUse:

>http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html

>Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

I have seen this question on countless occasions and in each an

every case a combination of running chkdsk.exe and plus one of

the tools I quoted before resolved the issue. I'm sure it will do it

in your case too.

 

 

"tbone" <noneedto@email.me> wrote in message

news:pjged3p6usi1u7cjbhls5m53ukdc6peeeq@4ax.com...

>I have the same problem on one of my XP machines. On an 80GB drive,

> some tools say there's only 3GB left, yet all the tools I've brought

> to bear so far say I've only got 40GB of files. I even tried a boot

> time chkdsk, but that didn't find or fix anything. I also checked the

> number of restore points, and other places where space might hide. No

> luck.

>

> I hope someone has an answer!

>

> tbone

>

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:09:10 -0700, group22 <group22@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>>Hi,

>>

>>I have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4.

>>Windows is saying the disk was nearly full. (about 32GB used)

>>The disk is roughly 34GB and I didn't see any large folders or files

>>on it. If I look at the properties of all folders (including hidden)

>>the folder sizes add up to about 6GB.

>>This morning, I ran a utility called i.disk that displays folder size

>>graphically and it is only showing about 6Gb of disk space used.

>>I have scanned for viruses and found none.

>>I scanned for rootkits and it came up clean.

>>I ran a file system check on boot, that didn't clear it up.

>>

>>Any ideas as to how to proceed?

>>

>>Thanks,

>>Rob

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

If you send your valid EMail address to

pegasus_fnlATyahooDOTcom then I'll let you

have a command line VB script I wrote that gives

you a complete profile of your hard disk and what's

eating up your disk space.

 

 

"tbone" <noneedto@email.me> wrote in message

news:ouged35akhikfk15kesu1sg0s49u6036ch@4ax.com...

> FYI - DriveUse cranked for about 10 minutes and 350,000 I/Os on this

> system without displaying anything. I killed it.

>

> As far as the missing free space - I have this same problem on an XP

> machine. I use PowerDesk, which includes a SizeManager utility. This

> and other tools showed only 40 of 80GB used, but free space shown by

> all tools is only 3GB. I know about clusters and wasted space -

> there's no way that can account for this much missing. I checked

> system restore points, 0 length files, empty directories... nothing.

>

> I did a boot-time chkdsk, but that didn't help. The only clue I have

> so far is that the Defrag tool shows a huge red "fragmented" area on

> the hard drive (yes, about half the space), but there aren't enough

> files mentioned in the fragmentation report to explain almost 40GB

> missing.

>

> Any other suggestions?

>

> Thanks

> tbone

>

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:32:25 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com>

> wrote:

>

>>Try one of these tools:

>>DriveUse:

>>http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html

>>Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

>>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

If you send your valid EMail address to

pegasus_fnlATyahooDOTcom then I'll let you

have a command line VB script I wrote that gives

you a complete profile of your hard disk and what's

eating up your disk space.

 

 

"tbone" <noneedto@email.me> wrote in message

news:ouged35akhikfk15kesu1sg0s49u6036ch@4ax.com...

> FYI - DriveUse cranked for about 10 minutes and 350,000 I/Os on this

> system without displaying anything. I killed it.

>

> As far as the missing free space - I have this same problem on an XP

> machine. I use PowerDesk, which includes a SizeManager utility. This

> and other tools showed only 40 of 80GB used, but free space shown by

> all tools is only 3GB. I know about clusters and wasted space -

> there's no way that can account for this much missing. I checked

> system restore points, 0 length files, empty directories... nothing.

>

> I did a boot-time chkdsk, but that didn't help. The only clue I have

> so far is that the Defrag tool shows a huge red "fragmented" area on

> the hard drive (yes, about half the space), but there aren't enough

> files mentioned in the fragmentation report to explain almost 40GB

> missing.

>

> Any other suggestions?

>

> Thanks

> tbone

>

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:32:25 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com>

> wrote:

>

>>Try one of these tools:

>>DriveUse:

>>http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html

>>Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

>>

[Guest tbone]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:51:10 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com>

wrote:

>If you send your valid EMail address to

>pegasus_fnlATyahooDOTcom then I'll let you

>have a command line VB script I wrote that gives

>you a complete profile of your hard disk and what's

>eating up your disk space.

 

Your suggestion pointed me in the right direction, so I thank you for

that mental "kick". :-) I guess that's why you guys get the big bucks!

 

A while back, I started writing a duplicate file checker in VB

(perhaps someday I'll release it, if I ever get it finished). I

created a File Enumerator class that selects all files matching a list

of filter criteria (files, folders, sizes, even regular expression

match on filename). So I realized that this could do as you suggested

your tool would. I figured I had nothing to lose by trying it. Sure

enough, it found all the files AND all the space used, close to 80GB!

 

Here's the issue: the tools I used all had trouble handling individual

files that exceed 2^32 (4GB) in size. The actual file size is shown

correctly in PowerDesk's folder view (once I knew where to look), but

the file sizes are not reported or added correctly to the total in the

FileSearch or SizeManager tools. I'll bet the coder ignored the high

32-bits of the filesize in the directory entry. What threw me most is

that the FileSearch tool listed the file size incorrectly. These huge

files are backup volumes created by Acronis TrueImage.

 

So, THANK YOU for pointing me in the right direction. I relearned that

lesson about not trusting the tools too much.

 

BTW, what's with that DriveUse program? It has been cranking away on

the XP machine for 20 minutes, still no answer. I'm gonna let it run

overnight if it has to, just to see what it comes up with. By

comparison, my built-in VB-based enumerator (using the Windows API of

course) scanned my entire drive in mere seconds (but it's only looking

at the directory entries).

 

Thanks very much

tbone

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

 

"tbone" <noneedto@email.me> wrote in message

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> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:51:10 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com>

> wrote:

>

>>If you send your valid EMail address to

>>pegasus_fnlATyahooDOTcom then I'll let you

>>have a command line VB script I wrote that gives

>>you a complete profile of your hard disk and what's

>>eating up your disk space.

>

> Your suggestion pointed me in the right direction, so I thank you for

> that mental "kick". :-) I guess that's why you guys get the big bucks!

>

 

I'm a volunteer in this newsgroup, same as the vast

majority of the other respondents. We get no bucks

for our assistance, neither big nor small.

[Guest group22]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

Hi,

 

I used folder sizes and it shows a folder called "del" in the recycler

that is 26GB.

I am unable to delete it from windows.

Should I boot using Bart's PE and delete it?

Thanks,

Rob

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

 

"group22" <group22@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1188569103.330204.213980@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...

> Hi,

>

> I used folder sizes and it shows a folder called "del" in the recycler

> that is 26GB.

> I am unable to delete it from windows.

> Should I boot using Bart's PE and delete it?

> Thanks,

> Rob

>

 

The usual method is to right-click the Recycle Bin,

then to empty it.

 

A Bart PE boot will probably let you delete it too.

[Guest group22]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

Sorry, I forgot to mention it wouldn't let me delete it, even from a

command line.

I think I'll try bart's PE.

 

Can I delete the recycler directory? Will it be regenerated?

 

Thanks again,

Rob

[Guest group22]

Re: windows 2000 AS showing disk is full when it shouldn't be

 

Bart's PE didn't work because I couldn't see the drive.

Rob