Hard Drive Doubled In Size

I have a 500 GB hard drive and it's been running less than 1/2 full forever. And then all of a sudden there is only 22 GB free. And now it has 50.7 GB free. I have not installed or deleted anything that would explain these
changes. I've ran all the tools defrag, clean disk, temp files, virus scans etc. When I run the drive space manager to see what is on the hard drive there is a large gray area that says unscanned. I would appreciate any assistance. Thanks in advance.

Try to open Hidden Files and let me know what all you can see.
Here's how to display hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button ,
clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance
and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show
hidden files, folders, and drives, and then click OK.
Also make sure that you un check the 3 highlighted options.
You will mainly get Recycle Bin folder and System Volume Information folder in which the data will be present Else there will be Page File or Space reserved for System Restore.

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I'm going on a trip soon, and I'd like to remove my hard drive and leave it at home. The new hard drive will have something like fedora or ubuntu on it, just so I can have a computer while I travel without taking all of my data with me. (Even if I back up my osx drive properly, the drive will still have my personal data on it when I travel - which I'd prefer not to risk, of course.)
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If you can find a brand new 7200rpm PATA laptop drive, such as that Hitachi 7K100, grab it immediately since they're no longer in production...
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Upgrade Macbook Late 2008 Unibody Hard Drive SSD or size?

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I have out grown hard drive storage space on my Mac Pro. Currently, I have a 300 Gig system drive and 500Gig Scratch Drive. I am considering purchasing two 1000Gig drives because I could use a very large volume of video storage.
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~A

Hi almainstay and welcome.
As klaus1 says, Whatsize is an excellent little app. You can also use Finder. With a new Finder window open key ⌘+2 for List View, then ⌘+J to bring up view options. Select the 'This window only' button and check the 'Calculate all sizes' box as well as any other sorting that you might require like Date modified or Date created. You might like to open the Library folder and scroll down to 'Logs' to make sure that a runaway process isn't writing to Logs incessantly. Check the size of the folder, (mine is 440 KB).
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The size limitation is operating system independent. It has to do with the ATA bus on older machines which is discussed in more detail on this article:
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Hi, (note pic below of my computers actual specs from this morning)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_GB_barrier
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/faq/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-3-g b-memory-limitation-details.html
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http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/DDR2/ - They offer Mac tested RAM at very good prices.
Crucial Memory http://www.crucial.com/ - good place to buy RAM from all over the world. They also have an excellent memory selector that allows you to choose memory based on your computer's model
Data Memory Systems http://www.datamemorysystems.com/apple-memory.asp - another good, cheap place to buying RAM if you live in the U.S.
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I am looking for a solution that will allow me to format multiple hard drives of different sizes by percentage. Does anybody know of a Mac Os X Utility or Termianl command that will allow me to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Michael--
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