Hello all!
This is kinda related to computer recording.
First of all, I'm running Win98SE on a PIII box. I have a main hard drive and a secondary 40GB hard drive that I use for file sharing etc. Today, I was transferring data from a few misburned DVD Videos to my secondary hard drive for correct burning. The first discs went fine, but when I walked in to check the progress of the third, it had gone from about 15 minutes remaining to over 400 minutes.
I hit cancel, transfer showed having stopped, I waited, but the DVD drive continued to work. After waiting, I finally hit ctrl-alt-del to see if I could stop the process, but there was not one to stop. So, I ejected the disc. Everything seems fine. I go to delete the files already transferred and get to one file (lets call it vts_01) showing that it is in use or protected with an access denied message. I finally get it into the recycle bin and it tells me again that access is denied. Anyway, I thought I finally got it deleted.
I go to shutdown and get a message to the effect of "file transfer in progress" or something along that line. Again, I ctrl-alt-del, to end the process to no avail. Anyway, I finally get a blue screen, computer shuts down, I thought scandisk on start up would find the large chunk of data and give me the option to delete and it didn't. I ran a thorough error check with no results (not that I recognized at least).
So, right now, the recycle bin shows it is empty (nothing to delete), but when I click on recycle bin properties, it shows it contains 1 folder and 3 files totaling right at 1GB. My free hard drive space is also about 1GB short of what I initially started with.
My question, is how do I find this missing data and delete it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanx,
-Bryan