Can I have my disc space back?

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Mike Smartt

Yesterday, I made a copy of a DVD using Nero 6. An image was made on my C
drive before copying, as usual, and the copy was completed apparently
without trouble. The program shut down. However, when I tried to make
another copy I was told there was insufficient space on C. Sure enough,
where there had once been 5 gigs + free, there was now 800 mb. I checked and
the image file had apparently been deleted. But the C drive was still
showing that 4.6 gigs - the size of the image drive - was being occupied.
Anyone else had similar problems? I am pretty sure it's a windows problem
rather than Nero.
 
Yes. I did all that. Including running all the Windows disc utilities and
others. I have just deteled a cache file that was 250 mgs and the disc still
reports only 800 megs full. Perhaps this is a liitle nasty (virus, trojan)
which has sneaked on to my hard disc?
 
Mike

Does the file have a name? Have you used Windows Explorer to search for
it? Remember you use the * wild card if you only know part of the file
name or restrict your search to files over 1 mb.

If you do what you did before does Nero not give you a file path? You
can cancel the operation before it places a further copy on your hard
drive.

Do you have any Norton Utilities?

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Thanks for that. I had, in fact, searched for the file and found, in Nero,
the path for saving the temporary image. Your idea about Norton Utilities
was a good one because I recovered the 4.5 gig file, which seems to have
been there all the time (Nero is set to delete the image on exit and seemed
to have done so but, course, it is recoverable). I have now tried to delete
it in the normal way through the Trash Can and although it seems to have
gone, the space on the hard disc is still not released and the file is
recoverable - because I have done it. How does one get rid of a file like
this permanently - dead, gone, deceased?
 
Mike

Has another copy gone into Norton Protected Storage?

http://snipurl.com/j8g4

Have you emptied the Windows Recycle Bin? If you wish to bypass the
Recycle Bin you can delete using Shift+Delete but be careful using this
method and you cannot restore the file if you delete in error.

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Gerry
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You might want to look into windows washer it will delete the nero files and
will erase and wash the disk. the first time i use it it recovered over 1 gig
of space it also has a way to wash slack space ( Unused ) that might still
have fragments of files left on it..
 
Thanks everyone. I have now emptied Norton Protected Storage and that has
solved the problem. I have had Norton on my computer for several years and
never understood what protected storage was. You learn something new every
day.
 
Thanks everyone. I have now emptied Norton Protected Storage and that has
solved the problem. I have had Norton on my computer for several years and
never understood what protected storage was. You learn something new every
day.
Click to expand...

While a lot of people complain about Norton products, the Norton
Protected Recycle bin has saved me several times when I have deletd
something by mistake.
 
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