Incorrect storage capacity?? please help

[Krenum]

Hello, ok I have one for you guys, I recently formated my hard drive on my computer, earasing the partition then creating a new one and formating , but recently my hard drive has been showing the wrong amount of storage space it has. I only have one game and a couple of programs installed. Its a 80gb hdd, showing 17gb free. I dont know whats wrong, could it be that my Hdd is going out?

Im using Windows xp 32bit if this helps anyone diagnose.

 

[Crotan]

Well you say you just recently reformatted, sounds like you may have made a smaller partition than you intended, check out Disk Management and see what it says

 

[Krenum]

I am certain that i made the partition for 74gbs, this just happened the day before yesterday. I found that my C:\Documents and Settings folder says that it has 46.8 GB's of data in it , I have no clue were all that information is , Ive looked through every folder in that directory and have not found anything that reads 46gb's of data.

im stumped.

 

[Krenum]

Ok i found it, I had windows show the hidden files and found that a temp folder was holding 46gbs of data. Anyways problem solved , thanks for replying .

 

[Krenum]

Ok i found it, I had windows show the hidden files and found that a temp folder was holding 46gbs of data. Anyways problem solved , thanks for replying .