Urgent help needed. 80+gigs missing.

[mannwhite]

Dear all,

Can anyone please help me? I was reorganising my hard drive and decided to restart all my bitccomet downloads so I could put them in a different place. So I did a windows search for all *.bc! files and deleted them from there. The files were deleted and I can't see them anywhere but my hard drive space stayed absolutely the same. I tried everything, deleting temp files, removing system restore, defragmenting, scandisk, searching for them in system and hidden folders, everything. What else can I do? I tried again with a different program and they didn't show up at all. Can somebody help me please?

Regards
Adrian

 

[sturm]

You didn't mention you emptied the trash can, did you?
The torrent downloader I use makes temp files when downloading. The actual files dont show up until after the download is complete.
I also have it set to allocate the space before downloading so I dont run out of space. Only have 10gb on the old computer.

 

[mannwhite]

I did, I tried everything, wiping, everything. nothing works as it should. I got a 170gig hard disk instead of 250.

 

[mannwhite]

I did, I tried everything, wiping, everything. nothing works as it should. I got a 170gig hard disk instead of 250.

 

[mannwhite]

I did, I tried everything, wiping, everything. nothing works as it should. I got a 170gig hard disk instead of 250.

 

[edklite]

is your system restore on?

easy recovery pro should be able to get your files for you

 

[mannwhite]

I tried turning my system restore off to remove all the files to no avail. What is this program you speak of? Is there any way I can do this without buying any programs? I just want my space back not my files. But, really, thanks for your suggestions, all of you.

 

[edklite]

if you don't want your files and just the space then forget easy recovery pro.

do you use ccleaner?

if not download it and run it. also make sure for now that your system restore is disabled once we have figured out what is going and fixed it then you can enable it if you want

 

[mannwhite]

I run ccleaner also. However, now that I'm thinking about I'm not sure whether System restore was on or off when I ran it. Anyway, doesn't System restore have a limit on the amount of space it occupies? We're not talking about a few k here. I'll give it a try anyway just in case and I'll keep you guys posted. Thanks very much for your help eh.

 

[mannwhite]

I tried turning system restore off and running ccleaner, nothing.

I tried running a scan with easy recovery pro, nothing showed up either, this is very strange.

 

[edklite]

right click my computer>manage>(left pan)disk management>here give us a screenshot of your disk management window with the drive in it and lets see what it looks like

 

[mannwhite]

Capacity 232.88gb
Free space 75.77gb
%free 32%
Fault tolerance no
overhead 0%

that's all the info I have. 2nite I think i'm going to leave do a full wipe of the free space maybe that'll free up something.

I was looking in another forum, a guy said he made a program that kept writing a 2gb file and deleting it continuously. After 20hours there was no space on the disk left even though no files, hidden or otherwise, were showing. What do you think of this?

 

[edklite]

thats not happening to you, any chance you can give us a screenshot of that window?

 

[mannwhite]

i can't post an image cause I don't have 100 posts. But that was all the info I had on screen.

 

[edklite]

you dont need any thing to post pics.

just got to http://www.imageshack.us/ and upload image there and post link here

 

[mannwhite]

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this should be it then, thanks.

 

[edklite]

that is the one thx, all looks good there.

something just gave me an idea.

what torrent client do you use?

 

[mannwhite]

I was using bitcomet but it kept crashing on me, so I switched to utorrent, I found it much better. Why?

 

[edklite]

which client where you using when you deleted your torrent files?

 

[mannwhite]

I was using bitcomet at the time, but I downloaded them using windows explorer. I did a search for all *.bc! files, selected them all and pressed delete.

 

[edklite]

search your pc for all your torrent folders and then check their size.

if you kept any of the torrent files then they will act as if you have teh whole file on your drive. check yoru folders and see which is holding the missing chunk of space.

 

[mannwhite]

i deleted all folders containing those bc files, and searched all drive including hidden and system folders, nothing came up. this is really really strange. yesterday i wiped the free space now i'm going to give it another defrag and see what happens.

 

[edklite]

boss for some reason you seem to be stuck on bc files, which I imagine are bitcomet files.

don't care too much about the extension, as a matter of fact .torrent files are the ones that will take the room.

if you noticed I did not say anything about bc files (since you already mentioned it like 4 times), forget bc files and check all of your bittorrent folders specially utorrent, check the size of all of your p2p folders you should find one of them being the size or larger then the chunck we are looking for

 

[mannwhite]

the size of my torrent directory is just 4.9megs for 165 files

 

[edklite]

ok right click your "program files" and "document and settings" and see what their sizes are post here