So, I have asked on Anandtech, and TechSupportForums, places that are supposed to have the brightest computer minds, well, they are both fail on this. I'll just repost my original posting ...
So one of my 1TB drives that houses system, and movie backups is giving me some odd numbers when looking at used vs free space. The drive has six folders on it, and Windows reports it as having 77.8GB free of 931GB, but when I select all the folders and look at properties it shows only 494GB, and when I take the size of each folder individually and add them up it comes to 658GB. When I add any combination of the six folders I get the 494GB. I have "Show Hidden files, folders, and drives" selected. What is going on here? Any ideas?
I have used WinDirStat to look at the files, and can see the space as "Unknown".
Anandteh thread ... Where is my storage space gone? - AnandTech Forums
TechSupportForum thread ... Where is my storage space gone? - Tech Support Forum
chkdsk /f /r f: did nothing wahtsoever
So one of my 1TB drives that houses system, and movie backups is giving me some odd numbers when looking at used vs free space. The drive has six folders on it, and Windows reports it as having 77.8GB free of 931GB, but when I select all the folders and look at properties it shows only 494GB, and when I take the size of each folder individually and add them up it comes to 658GB. When I add any combination of the six folders I get the 494GB. I have "Show Hidden files, folders, and drives" selected. What is going on here? Any ideas?
I have used WinDirStat to look at the files, and can see the space as "Unknown".
Anandteh thread ... Where is my storage space gone? - AnandTech Forums
TechSupportForum thread ... Where is my storage space gone? - Tech Support Forum
chkdsk /f /r f: did nothing wahtsoever