any hardware gurus around?

spazlabz · 07-09-2005

first a little background. I had the need to buy a new hard drive for one of my computers... the one i do all my video work on, because i am going to be authoring some DVDs for a friend of mine.
So I went out and got a new 120GB HD and installed it in my box.
Everything was fine for the first couple of days.... but as I was using it more and more, I started getting stupid errors. Like when i tried to save a captured video to it that was like 2GBs in size... it would give me an error saying it couldnt save because the disc was full.
So now I have a total of 22 folders and like 224 files that take up a total amount of space of 23.96GB on the drive
it shows the drive as having a total amount of space as 111GB and the freespace is only 63GB
63 + 24 = 87
111 - 87 = 24
so there is 24GB of space that just isnt accounted for anywhere! how can this happen? any ideas? or any ideas on how to get that extra 24GB back so i can use it?
any help would be terrifically appreciated

spaz

07-09-2005	#1
spazlabz Payserve SUX Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 1,988	first a little background. I had the need to buy a new hard drive for one of my computers... the one i do all my video work on, because i am going to be authoring some DVDs for a friend of mine. So I went out and got a new 120GB HD and installed it in my box. Everything was fine for the first couple of days.... but as I was using it more and more, I started getting stupid errors. Like when i tried to save a captured video to it that was like 2GBs in size... it would give me an error saying it couldnt save because the disc was full. So now I have a total of 22 folders and like 224 files that take up a total amount of space of 23.96GB on the drive it shows the drive as having a total amount of space as 111GB and the freespace is only 63GB 63 + 24 = 87 111 - 87 = 24 so there is 24GB of space that just isnt accounted for anywhere! how can this happen? any ideas? or any ideas on how to get that extra 24GB back so i can use it? any help would be terrifically appreciated spaz __________________ Kenny's Pennies awesome fetish content that actually sells!