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Originally Posted by Mattinblack
If I remember correctly windoze 2000 servers do not defragment in the background and also leave file stubs in the directory (at a disc level) for directories even after deletion. It may be that even if you have deleted all your old stuff if you did not do a complete reformat or a defrag then your new stuff is scattered all over the place. If you did not delete it and you have not a lot of space on your HD then defrag! It may also be that you have a bad sector of disc space that the OS has detected and knows to skip but is not marked as bad in your drive partition table. I was told this would be fixed on later builds of Windoze by microsoft but changed to Eunuchs which cured the problem. I still have a couple of bad patches on my disc (and have had for the last two years) but since they are not growing and Eunuchs handles it well I am leaving well alone. Yes I know i will need a new drive eventually!
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Interesting possibility which I didn't think about. I never deleted the old stuff in case I wanted to switch a domain back, for whatever reason, but I've got 62 GB free. I'm doing a defrag now, but will keep the old stuff up for now. I'll post the results here in case someone else is interested.