Hard drive losing space

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  1. jamesg91

    jamesg91 Member

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    So recently i have been moving stuff around my hard drives and i just noticed that after i moved 50gb or so that the 50gb did not actually get free'd up. (was 950gb and is still 950 after moving 50 to another drive) Obviously this is annoying as its basically like lossing 50gb's of capacity.

    Does anyone know what i can do to resolve this issue apart from formatting?

    Thanks

    Jaymz
     
    jamesg91, Apr 4, 2010
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    are you using copy & paste or cut & paste?
     
    ddp, Apr 4, 2010
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    Cut and paste of course.
     
    jamesg91, Apr 5, 2010
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    anyone got any ideas?
     
    jamesg91, Apr 13, 2010
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    You could try a defrag/scandisk.
     
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