JDiskReport Strange Results

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Twayne

Hi Jim, Js and Nepatsfan
I ran a scan with JDiskReport and it showed the 16GB that I knew
about.
Windows explorer and properties show 103 being used

I have put a screenshot of the two reports at
http://www.pipebendersinc.com/size.jpg (cannot attach here)


Still Stuck. Looks like window is confused. Any way to have it go
and look up each file in the directory and check the locations etc. I
was hoping scandisk or defrag would figure that out but they didn't

Tom
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The URL you posted is coming up 404 not found for me right now, so I
can't get a look at it.


Have you accounted for:

Restore Points? Stored in the normally hidden System Volume
INformation, I believe.
PageFile reservation?
Differences between measurement methods? e.g. MB, Mb, 1000 vs 1024,
etc.? The latter can really add up to some large differences with large
drives if the programs you use don't use the same counting methodology.

Many programs reserve as yet unoccupied disk space for their own
explicit use which is usually not accounted for in space calculations.
There are too many of them to guess at and you gave no idea what's on
your system. Many of the reservations are in the order of 10% to 15% of
the hard disk capacity so they can add up fast, too.
If the gap is 16 vs 103 though, I think I'd take a look at the "b" vs
"B" situation. "b" is bits, "B" is bytes. Beware mixing the two up.

Almost all the time such discrepancies are explained by one or more of
the above.

Perhaps if you gave more specific information someone could make a
closer guess at what the situation is. Just how large is the
discrepancy and what is the size of the hard drive? How much is
used/free, etc.?
 
Where is your System Volume Information Folder?

One way sometimes to discover the existence of larger hidden files is
that they can be revealed in the Most Fragmented Files list in a Disk
Defragmenter Report. Of course the files need to be fragmented to be
seen but those of significant size usually are if the disk needs to be
defragmented. Sometimes these files can be so large there is not
sufficient contiguous free space to be able to totally defragment them.

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report from Pat's
computer. Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View
Report and click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My
Documents Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk
Defragmenter as it is more informative.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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