A non-Sims Question. Can anyone explain this....

[MutantBunny]

I went to play my game (maybe it is a sims-related question?), my PC died, black. I tried to restart, blue screened me with a 'unmountable boot volume' error. I went to Recovery Console and checkdisked it, it found some errors and then I rebooted. Here's the question: before this happened, I had 17 gb of space. After it happened, I have 47 GB of space.WTF? I have looked for missing files, everything looks fine and works fine--so far. How'd that happen??

[Sagana]

Does your recovery program or check disk defrag as well? That'd give you disk space alla sudden.

[Dea]

I have never had Disk defrag give me extra space it just moves files around...It must have been tghe recovery program that did it

[Ness]

the drive can often get errors that make the amount of free space reported be wrong - that's usually fixed by scan disk...  I've had it a few times, but never such a big difference!

[MutantBunny]

No recovery program and no it didn't defrag--but I did defrag after I found the GBs. merry Xmas?

The only possible explanation, and I have no idea if it is even possible, I can come up with so far is: about a month ago I was hit be a hacker/spyware (same difference to me) my usually inaccessible 'System Volume Information' folder, usually hidden and locked, became unlocked. I went in and cleaned out a bunch of old crap (Kids: don't try this at home! you gotta have big balls or know what you're doing to do this or be really stupid I have no idea which one I am) At that time my free space didn't change much in size and I wondered why not cuz I thought it would--maybe something in the check disk today fixed the free space reading??

40 gigs is a lot to 'recover'......