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My drive has 92GB used space, 95GB free out of a 220GB partition. There are 33GB in the air I can't find.

I already did a cleanup, emptied the recycle bin, history and temporary files too. I believe that it's possibly space my brother occupies with a program he uses to hide (possibly encrypted) files.

I don't know the name, I've just seen him do it on USB and PC, and they don't appear visible or hidden. The result is what you read above. Is there any way of finding those files to delete them, or could it be something else?

I already tried FreeCommander too.

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Use WinDirStat and find where the data is on the drives, assuming they are all partitioned to take up 100% of the disk.

If you use this program to discover what appears to be your brother's 33GB gay porn stash of dicks, I am not responsible if you now have more questions raised than answered.

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lol Thank you worked great, now I now where they are since they are encrypted I think ill save my self the problem of finding out what program he used or how to decrypt them just will erase Them probably porn anyway most probably not gay though but thanks a lot 1:D – Peter May 18 '10 at 9:21
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Depending on the operating system, this could be shadow copies of the disk, which Microsoft uses to save "restore points". Here's an explaination of Vista's system restore. Shadow copies don't show up as files in windows explorer.

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thank you also wasnt the problem but checked just in case and now i have even more free space on my disk very helpfull info – Peter May 18 '10 at 10:24

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