Missing HDD Space???

[LOE]

WTF, I was getting low disk msgs all the time, and now I checked things a little closer. I have 7 partitions on my PC and found out that 3 of them are with some space missing.

I count all files totall, then check out the disc status.
Here's what I found:

c: size 60 GB missing 7 GB
d: size 20 GB missing 0 GB
e: size 120 GB missing 11 GB
i: size 80 GB missing 8 GB
k: size 30 GB missing 0GB
l: size 60 GB missing 0GB
n: size 30 GB missing 0GB

It isn't system restore - I disabled it
It isn't norton protection stuff

I checked the HDD for errors:
Norton Disk Doctor told me everything's FINE

The windows scan utility however couldn't finish the test, gave me an error message "unable to complete the scan"


Any ideas???

[oasked]

You do know that, for example a 80Gb drive is actually only 74Gb, due to the way they name the drives?

[LOE]

Yup, what's not matching is the reports from windows...

Actually I found the problem by erasing about 5 GB.. then windows reported I still have 70 MB free on that partition. I said "man I just erased 5 gigs and they're gone"

Anyway I fixed it - thou the norton protection was disabled it was somehow making back copies of files, so I turned it on, then purged all files....