From: Tony@the.jungle.drums   
      
   Anne Onime writted thus:   
      
   > I'm using Win XP with all current updates.   
   >   
   > I have a 500 GB external D: Drive.   
   >   
   > I had about 150 GBs of data on it. The rest of the 350 GB of the drive   
   > was freespace.   
   >   
   > I used Eraser to erase the 150 GB of data on the drive so that I would   
   > have the entire 500 GB free to create an encrypted TrueCrypt container   
   > of 450 GB. However, after erasing the 150 GB of data, Windows is telling   
   > me that I still only have 350 GB of freespace. Why am I not getting the   
   > entire 500 GB as freespace if I erased the 150 GB of data previously on   
   > the drive?   
   >   
   > Somewhere I am not understanding something very basic about this   
   > situation. If you erase 150 Gb of data from your drive, should not   
   > Windows now consider that freespace and have added it to the original   
   > freespace figure of 350 GB, making the new freespace figure of 500 GB?   
   >   
   > Do I have to format the drive again to bring it back to 500 GB of   
   > freespace?   
   >   
   > (Did I forget to mention how much I hate computers at times like this?)   
      
   Tried emptying the recycle bin?   
      
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