Rescue & recovery has somehow lost me 25GB of HDD space?

[biggow]

Hi all,

I've had a weird situation with my X60s, and wondered if anyone had any suggestions.

Basically, I noticed that I'd somehow lost around 30GB worth of space on the HDD, and looking at the folders in explorer gave no clue as to what was taking up the space. Then of course I had a look on here and found the posts about just how much space rescue and recovery can use for backups, and low and behold when looking at the backups there were 2 totalling 30GB. So, I decided to delete the larger (25GB) file of the 2, and the most bizarre thing seems to have happened.

I instructed the rescue and recovery app. to delete the larger file, and it seemed a little slow, so I left it to it and came back later. I eventually looked again, about 2 hours later, and it was still saying it was deleting the file, but somehow not only had the original 30GB for the backups not been deleted, but R&R had somehow eaten up another 25GB in trying to delete the 1 file, leaving me with about 150MB free on my C drive!

I closed R&R and rebooted, yet still I only had 150MB free HDD space. I then ran R&R again, and this time deleted the 5GB file, which it did fine, and then deleted the 25GB file, which this time it did fine. This gave me back the 30GB that the backups were taking up, but the other 25GB that R&R somehow managed to eat up is still completely AWOL.

I've looked through all the folders on my C drive and I can't see anything taking up that space. R&R reports I now have no backups, so I can't delete anything from there, and my service partition shows as just 4.6GB. So I am now completed stumped as to where this other 25GB has gone.

Has anyone out there come across anything like this, or perhaps would have an idea of what it may be?

Thanks in advance!

[agarza]

First of all remove Rescue & Recovery if you don't use it. Only use the ThinkVantage tools you would need for your Thinkpad. A problem like yours is what I try to avoid installing Windows from scratch and then just select the programs I would use.

To find out where the 25GB are, download this program:
http://rapidshare.com/files/23982742/DiskState.exe

It displays in a graphics and in text which folders on your HDD are taking the most space, hopefully you could find where are those missing GB's

Good luck and welcome here

[biggow]

Thanks very much for that benottomex. Believe it or not though, it still doesn't show where the missing space is.

Diskstate shows total drive size as 88.79GB, used as 54.03GB and free as 34.76GB. However, if you add up the totals of the individual folders that Diskstate displays they come to about 32GB, therefore I'm missing around 22GB.

Any ideas anyone?

[smvp6459]

Is it possibly in a hidden folder?

[biggow]

Problem solved!

I just removed Rescue and Recovery and low and behold I've regained the missing 22GB.

[Dögen]

IBM software is scary business