BC partition: 55gb total, 15gb used, showing only 25gb free..?
Hey all, I'm not sure if this is normal but thought I would ask. I've done every kind of disk usage measurement tool I can think of (du, windows file sizes, osx file sizes.. etc).. all say that I am using 15gb of space on my 55gb bootcamp partition... but it's showing both in windows and osx that the partition only has 25gb of space left. 15 + 25 = 40gb.. so somewhere I am missing between 10 and 15gb of free space on my boot camp partition.
I'm running Snow Leopard on Mac... and Windows 7 on the bootcamp partition. I had some large files on there (8-10gb), which I'd apparently deleted (but don't remember deleting)..but I might have accidentally. I am wondering if:
1) the files weren't deleted, but are somehow missing or hidden due to some disk error, but are still taking up space on the bootcamp partition?
2) the files were deleted, and the ~10+gb discrepancy in "free space" reporting is normal?
Thanks!
Pete
Problem solved! Ran Disk Utility not in recover mode again, and it identified that the logical size wasn't right. Repair Disk while logged in - and at the upper level "Macintosh HD" on the left sidebar - fixed the issue, and I'm going to not attempt to run Boot Camp again for a while just in case :-p
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