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If have a 90 Gb NTFS partition on my harddisk. After deleting a large
avi file of 18 Gb the disk space is no longer correct.
The system shows there are appr 60 Gb Free.
Chkdsk says: 29,8 G in 10.850 files
Dir/s says : 12,9 G in 10.709 files
There seems to be appr 18 G lost !

Who has any clue

Peter

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"PieBeee" <piebeee@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> If have a 90 Gb NTFS partition on my harddisk. After deleting a large
> avi file of 18 Gb the disk space is no longer correct.
> The system shows there are appr 60 Gb Free.
> Chkdsk says: 29,8 G in 10.850 files
> Dir/s says : 12,9 G in 10.709 files
> There seems to be appr 18 G lost !
>
> Who has any clue
>
> Peter

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