[MrSlinky]

I had a lot of files in a single folder that were not necessary anymore and so I deleted them. Now come the problem. My drive is 16.0GB in size and I deleted about 700 files totaling ~10GB because I was down to about 2GB of free. Problem is that the math doesn't add up anymore.

I did a property on all the folders and they total 4.53GB of space used. But when I do a property of the drive it shows 14.2GB of space used.

4.53GB of files + 1.80GB of free = 16.0GB of disk ?????

Maybe is a newer style of MS math that I'm not associated with.

Any ideas (and yes I emptied the recycle bin and all temporary files).

[Brian Frank]

Have no clue about MS 'new math'.:-/

[Busby]

Are the files still in the recycle bin? If so that's why.

[Flak]

If its an NTFS drive it may be reserved space for the MFT, after a default install for my machine once i did a defrag and saw an enormous portion of my disk (about 7Gb) filled with "system files", it turned out to be reserved sapce for my MFT. I eventually managed to get rid of it by running the boot time defragmenter of Diskeeper, whichr educed it to about 200Mb