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Alexander_13
February 15th, 2009, 15:29
ate 1gb of hard drive disk which tool could i use to delete it?
THANAMELESS
February 15th, 2009, 21:51
ate 1gb of hard drive disk which tool could i use to delete it?

Hitmanpro.
http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro
best antivirus created...
Although, it will try to install some extra things, just cancell those.
Alexander_13
February 15th, 2009, 23:54
thank you nothing was found but i still got 1gb less
AnAutisticDog
February 16th, 2009, 06:08
are you sure it was a virus? If you have Peerguardian, try clearing the history.

I was missing a few gigs one time and I found out that my PeerGuardian History file was like 3 gigs.
THANAMELESS
February 16th, 2009, 09:49
Yeah it also could be a torrent, because if you delete the torrent file in e.g. utorrent, then the map with the file will still exist (although it should be empty.) when you delete it you will get your gb back.
onewecallgod
February 16th, 2009, 11:58
You need to be way more specific. Is the capacity of your drive short 1GB?
Alexander_13
February 16th, 2009, 12:25
well it was like this i download malware antimalware with key so i SCAN with avast the rar file and a blue screen appears i restart and then i got 1gb less i didn't open the key file or extract it no i just scan it and that happend :confused:
Zach
February 16th, 2009, 15:05
You still didn't answer the question..

1GB less CAPACITY (total list size of the drive)

or 1GB of space mysteriously taken up? (i.e 33 of 100GB to 34 of 100GB)

If you're missing capacity the BSOD could have just as easily screwed up your partition table or something.
Alexander_13
February 16th, 2009, 15:53
aha i have 149 total and i had 136gb now 135 gb
Zach
February 16th, 2009, 17:27
Ok.. So your drive capacity is 149.. You had 136gb of space taken up, but now you have only 135gb taken up? So you lost data..

It could have been temp files stored that got deleted once your computer restarted.. Was it on for a long time prior to the crash?
Alexander_13
February 16th, 2009, 17:48
Yes i had 136gb now i got 135gb a blue screen appeard and i have to restart because i scan in winrar a key file and i didn't open it
onewecallgod
February 16th, 2009, 21:21
Something tells me you're not reading decimals....

Big deal. You can't account for 1GB; it's only half a percent of space. There's no point in losing sleep over it.
Alexander_13
February 16th, 2009, 21:46
I know but the error cost me 1gb ;)
onewecallgod
February 16th, 2009, 22:59
Or it just costed you a few hundred and you never learned to read decimals in elementary school, so you think you lost a lot more than you did. Or type grammatical sentences for that matter.
Zach
February 17th, 2009, 00:43
It didn't cost you anything. You GAINED 1GB of free space if you went from 136 to 135.

What you really need to be asking is - does all your shit still work, are you missing stuff you normally use, or have stored for backup in the past.

If you're really THAT concerned about it... Backup your important shit to a CD/DVD/USB drive, whatever.. make sure its clean. Then just reformat your machine and put windows back on, or have a nerd you cheat off in class do it for you.
Alexander_13
February 17th, 2009, 11:48
Guys do you know a program to repair windows errors? like I remember norton tool or some similar program to reapir windows errors cuz before 135gb a blue screen appeard
Zach
February 17th, 2009, 12:55
Sometimes things just crash, there isn't an error to fix. You haven't said you are constantly getting BSOD crashes, only the one specific time.. What is there to fix