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Old 07-19-2009   #1 (permalink)
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My hard drive was giving indications of crashing so I had all of my data backed up and a new hard drive installed. After I got it back I decided to delete many of the photos that I have been meaning to delete but have been procrastinating. Here is the mystery. Yesterday I deleted about 30 gigs of photos and instead of the hard drive showing more space available it showed less. I can't figure out what's going on. I have an external hard drive hooked up that is supposed to back up everything and it shows way more space available. When I derlete I always check the box that says delete from hard drive. Any ideas as to what's going on here?


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Did you empty the recycle bin after deletion?
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Which OS ( Win 2000, XP, MacOS, Linux, etc)?
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Old 07-19-2009   #4 (permalink)
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Operating System is Vista Home Premium. Yes, I emptied the recycle bin and each time I emptied it and went to " My Computer" the hard drive would register more gigs full then before.
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Sounds like Volume Shadow Copy Service is enabled.

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Just out of interest googled around a bit. Here are some more tips which might help you:

When I fill up, then delete everything from a 320GB USB hard drive, Properties shows I have less space? - Yahoo! Answers


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