Two days ago but pc fucked up and I ran the "chkdsk" command. It fixed the corruption and helpfully 8-) fucked every windows program up. That wasn't even the problem. The main problem was, I had 50 GB of free hard disk space before I ran the Chkdsk command and now I have 2.4 GB. Does anyone know where the 47.6 GB disappeared ? I'm assuming it created a temporary file but didn't remove it after completion. Does anyone know where the temp files are kept or what could of happened? I can't really see how 47 GB of my hard drive being fully corrupted and unusable.

Any ideas on this problem, because I AM fighting a losing battle :(.

This happens all the time. It's easily fixable, its just a question of hunt and delete.



Did you delete one or more large files yesterday? Especially graphics, such
as photos or movies or music, which create very large files. If you edited
them, the programs probably kept backup versions in your Recycle Bin, along
with any copies that you deleted. If you empty your Recycle Bin (including
your Norton Protected Files if you use Norton), you may reclaim all that
space. First, of course, be sure you don't want to unerase any of those
files.

Other things that can soak up disk space without being obvious about it are
Hidden and System files, the swap file and the hibernation file, but these
typically total no more than a gigabyte or two, not the ~30 GB that you seem
to have lost.

To see these behind-the-scenes files, you can go to Folder Options | View
and change the default settings. Check "Show hidden files and folders".
You can also check "Display the contents of system folders", if you are an
Administrator, but be prepared for warnings that these files will now be
unprotected from mischief. Then have another look at C:\ in My Computer.
You should now see the swap file (pagefile.sys - about 1.5 times your
installed RAM, by default) and the hibernation file (hiberfil.sys - just
slightly larger than RAM), plus those hidden and system files and folder
contents.

I fixed the problem after over 24 hours of trial and error. Chkdsk fucked my partition table up. :(