ApeTheDog
28 May 2005, 03:59 PM
This isn't an emergency or a distress signal or anything, just me wondering about something and seeing if one of you might know what the cause of something that I've been wondering is.
You see, since a while now, my hard disk sometimes refuses to release free space after I delete something. This morning, for example, I installed Max Payne. When I tried to run it, it refuses to work. I removed it because I'd already installed the patch, and I wanted to see if it would run unpatched instead. But after I deleted the program, my hard disk doesn't make new free space. I installed it again, didn't work either, then I discovered it was an SP2 incompatibility. So I removed max payne again.
But where I had over 2GB available before doing all this, I now have only 145MB of free space left.
The answer really eludes me. I've checked my TEMP directory, I can't imagine my swap file to have grown by 2GB. This is not the first time this has happened either. I've lost up to 3GB in this way. Just gone.
They mysteriously show up a few days later again, when suddently my hard disk catches up to reality and shows me how much free space I really have again.
I'm on a laptop, and hard disk space is not a luxury here. I need to juggle my free space a bit. That's why I'm wondering what might be causing this, and if there's a solution.
Like I said, it's not a problem. I know in a few days, at most, the free space will be there again. It's just... I rather want to play max payne right now, and I'd quite like it not to happen again, as well, if possible.
One thing that might be causing it is either SP2, because I know for a fact this never happened before I installed it - or Norton Utilities. Although I'm certain I did not enable any norton undelete stuff, and did not allow norton to manage my garbage can. (I never use it. I SHIFT-Delete everything)
You see, since a while now, my hard disk sometimes refuses to release free space after I delete something. This morning, for example, I installed Max Payne. When I tried to run it, it refuses to work. I removed it because I'd already installed the patch, and I wanted to see if it would run unpatched instead. But after I deleted the program, my hard disk doesn't make new free space. I installed it again, didn't work either, then I discovered it was an SP2 incompatibility. So I removed max payne again.
But where I had over 2GB available before doing all this, I now have only 145MB of free space left.
The answer really eludes me. I've checked my TEMP directory, I can't imagine my swap file to have grown by 2GB. This is not the first time this has happened either. I've lost up to 3GB in this way. Just gone.
They mysteriously show up a few days later again, when suddently my hard disk catches up to reality and shows me how much free space I really have again.
I'm on a laptop, and hard disk space is not a luxury here. I need to juggle my free space a bit. That's why I'm wondering what might be causing this, and if there's a solution.
Like I said, it's not a problem. I know in a few days, at most, the free space will be there again. It's just... I rather want to play max payne right now, and I'd quite like it not to happen again, as well, if possible.
One thing that might be causing it is either SP2, because I know for a fact this never happened before I installed it - or Norton Utilities. Although I'm certain I did not enable any norton undelete stuff, and did not allow norton to manage my garbage can. (I never use it. I SHIFT-Delete everything)