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reclaim space from deleted folder

silk186

silk186

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I was careless and filled a one of my secondary drives with two large packs. I had downloaded one archive, about 150GB and still had more than 100GB of free space. I removed the torrent from uTorrent but forgot to empty the recycling bin. I added a newer archive that was 115GB and received and error when I had less than 1GB of free space on the drive. I emptied my trash but no free space was recovered. I removed the second archive and 80GB was free on the drive.

When space was not freeing up I ran disk check which found some errors. The computer needed to reset to repair the errors. I reset the computer and had a shower. When I came back the screen wouldn't display an image. I turned on my secondary display and saw a spinning animation of windows loading like the one below but without the text.

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I waited a while and reset the computer again. Windows loaded fine but free space hadn't increased. I deleted a 100GB folder and now have 219GB of free space and think I should have more than 300GB of free space. I restarted again but free space was the same.

I ran chkdsk /f D: and 6 hours later no problems.
i ran Go to start->Run-> Cleanmgr.exe and it found nothing.
I ran WinDirStat and don't think that it found anything unusual.

Any suggestions of utilities I can run?
I miss when I didn't know much and would run something like this one win95

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It might be temporary files created as the torrent completes. Download WinDirStat and see if you find a huge temporary or intermediate file (of the size range involved) that you don't expect and can delete.
 
Since it's drive D: (and not the boot drive C: , I'd copy all files from D: to an external USB drive (if you don't have one, then never mind), then reformat D: fresh as NTFS. Just to be sure. Also, I'd download Hard Disk Sentinel and check results/SMART info to be sure D: isn't problematic (bad sectors/etc.). I don't bother to leave it running all the time, just use it once a month or so to view SMART info.
 
what mwroobel said. use windirstat or spacemonger or something like those and you'll be able to see the file and delete it from there.
 
if you still cant find the files occupying the space . try runninh chkdsk too see if its lost clusters.
 
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