missing 30gb! help!

[Aesalon]

ok, so I was backing up my hard drive onto my backup hard drive using syncback se. great program and everything went fine. I look at the size of the two hard drives in my computer and find that my back up drive has 30 extra gigs free compared to my main drive.

I went to the root folder of each drive, and began individually highlighting every folder and began to selected each folder's properties to figure out which folder might be off. after doing all of the root folders and including the files included in each root directory, I found no significant difference.

sure, I came across about 3gb of temp files that weren't copied over by syncback but I can't explain the rest.

can the awesome people at hardforum please give me an idea or clue where I can start looking for the missing 30gb? maybe something I missed? please!

[ASIA911]

What you are saying is that you copy files from your main drive onto your backup drive. But you end up losing 30gigs of data on you backup drive(like it's been deleted?)? But your backup drive still have all it's data right?

Try using Restoring Data on your Syncback.

Try going into Control Panel>AdministrativeTools>Computer Management>Disk Management and check to see your backup drive.

There are softwares out there that can recover deleted files on the HDD.

[sc3252]

do you have hidden folders turn on or off?

edit: I mean can you see hidden folders?

[MightyMouse957]

Yeah sounds like a case of hidden files not being seen :)

[ASIA911]

Yeah sounds like a case of hidden files not being seen :)

But why would he gained 30gigs of storage?

[digital_exhaust]

Download this (http://windirstat.info/) utility and run it... it will show you exactly what is using your space...

[SmokeRngs]

Just out of curiosity, are the drives the same size?

You would be better off comparing the amount of data on the original with the amount of data on the backup. From the sound of things, you're going about this backwards and just looking at the amount of free space on each drive.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/207/1/1.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tnum=33&id=207)

[Aesalon]

What you are saying is that you copy files from your main drive onto your backup drive. But you end up losing 30gigs of data on you backup drive(like it's been deleted?)? But your backup drive still have all it's data right?

Try using Restoring Data on your Syncback.

Try going into Control Panel>AdministrativeTools>Computer Management>Disk Management and check to see your backup drive.

There are softwares out there that can recover deleted files on the HDD.

I don't think it's a matter of files being deleted, it's just that I have 30gb on my primary drive that are taken up while the backup has that 30gb extra while all the files match up in windirstat.

Download this (http://windirstat.info/) utility and run it... it will show you exactly what is using your space...

thanks, I'll check it out!

Just out of curiosity, are the drives the same size?

You would be better off comparing the amount of data on the original with the amount of data on the backup. From the sound of things, you're going about this backwards and just looking at the amount of free space on each drive.

the drives are the same exact size and I'm comparing the size of each of the folders on each of the drives and they all match up. the only problem is that the backup has 30gb free! just to clarify. thanks for your help!

[Aesalon]

http://www.omfgwtfbbqlol.com/images/mycomp.jpg

here's what my computer tells me.

http://www.omfgwtfbbqlol.com/images/windirstat.jpg

this is what windirstat tells me. wtf? :(

[910_DuB]

-Go under the options tab in WinDirStat and check "Show Unknown." Make sure it's enabled for both drives.

-What does it show now?

[ASIA911]

Now that make more sense visually. I couldn't understand what exactly you were trying to explain. You might not have copy the whole system files from the C drive. The only way probably if you have a mirror copy backup of that drive.

I'm not sure if I'm totally right but I believe that 30gigs taken up are system files that are backup and are hidden in the C drive. Maybe even a hidden duplicate of the OS system. Page file(hidden files that does not need to be backup)? Try rebooting.

[Aesalon]

http://www.omfgwtfbbqlol.com/images/windirstat2.jpg

touche. there it is. so, what would that be?

[910_DuB]

touche. there it is. so, what would that be?

This will help you:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1771119&forum_id=314709

I just fixed this problem myself earlier today. Although in my case it was taking up 66.1GB!

[Aesalon]

how would I do that for winxp then?

[ASIA911]

Did you empty the Recycling bin on your C drive?

[910_DuB]

how would I do that for winxp then?

That's a good question......I had assumed you were on Vista. Did you try that command? It's the same problem, but I guess the command could be a little different under XP.

I don't know what else to tell you other than trying that command if you haven't already.

[Aesalon]

Did you empty the Recycling bin on your C drive?

yep!

That's a good question......I had assumed you were on Vista. Did you try that command? It's the same problem, but I guess the command could be a little different under XP.

I don't know what else to tell you other than trying that command if you haven't already.

I tried it and system restore ceased to function but I restarted and then I noticed 30gb more free on my main drive. you guys fuckin' rock! thank you very much.

[910_DuB]

yep!



I tried it and system restore ceased to function but I restarted and then I noticed 30gb more free on my main drive. you guys fuckin' rock! thank you very much.

No problem. Glad I could help.