Hello to everyone! I was recently down to about 300mb so I decided to free up some space. I made a few data cd's totalling about 1.5 gb. After making the data cd's I deleted the mp3's that I put on data cd. My hard drive showed that I had 1.8gb. All appeared fine. I made another data cd with about 500mb of files. I deleted the files and checked my hard drive space. I was hoping to have over 2gb of free space. Well I'm only showing 205mb of free space? I've restarted the cpu, emptied the recycle bin, etc. I don't know what's going on? When making the data cds i would put say 200 mp3s in one folder. So when it was time to delete i'd just delete the folder. The folder didn't go to the recycle bin, it always said file to big. So when I deleted the files I assumed they were permanently deleted? Because they didn't go to the recycle bin because of the size. To be sure i went ahead and emptied my recycle bin. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm not a computer genius so I'm illiterate to some of the fancy terms and fixes. I'm using win98se 9gb hard drive, pentium 2, and 192ram. I work 10 to 14 hour days so I apologize if I'm late responding. Thanks

This seems like quite an odd little problem. The only thing that I can think of is that when you burnt the second cd, is that you may have saved the cd image file to you hard drive. What Burning software do you use? Yeah I said it!

thanks for your response, i'm using ahead nero (Nero 6 Express Edition).

First got to dos mode (Start, shutdown, select "Restart in MS-DOS Mode", ok) type SCANDISK, let it run. Sometimes the freespace can be reportrd wrong, once I had this problem and gained 100. hard disk space (it is alot considering it is only a 540Mb. HDD ;) Second: the error about the Recyle Bin not havin' enough space is related to the size limit it has (a percentage of your Hard disk).

Are you using "DriveSpace" in system tools to determine free space?

Put these file extensions into your search window and see if anything pops up. .ISO, .BIN or .CUE All 3 are valid image files. Yeah I said it!

thanks everyone for your responses! Hey Dave, i had never used drive space I usually click my cpu, then right click on drive c to check free space. After you mentioned drive space in system tools I try'd it and it read about the same. Netms I was trying to avoid scan disk. I've had my cpu for years and have never got scan disk to complete. But, I figured it may have something to do with my problem. I ended up downloading a program that does scan disk. The program claimed that it will never restart, etc... I ran the program, it ran very smooth and took probably about 30 to 40 minutes. It obviously found my problem and now I have a little over 3gb of free space!!! I would mention the program but I don't know if you can mention other programs on computing.net I don't want to promote a non affiliate if it's not allowed. I guess any scan disk program would have found the problems and free'd up room. Anyways thanks to you all smashfist, dave and netms! Good Day!