[X4U] The case of missing hard drive space

[Christopher Collins]

First things first. If the data is important, go and get a new 2.5" SATA hard drive and install it into your MBP.

Shouldn't cost more than AUS$125 for about 500GB.

Install a clean system onto that.

Now connect your old drive in an external case and spend as much time as you like trying to find that missing data.

Look for "Previous System" I think it is called.

cjc

On 19/08/2010, at 2:49 PM, Kevin Hahn wrote:

> So I had to do a re-install of OSX onto my MacBook Pro (10.4.11).
> 
> After spending substantial time I am left confused.
> 
> If I go to Macintosh HD and get info I get 97.85 GB on the HD, however, if I go into the directory for Macintosh HD I can only find at best about 43 GB worth of content to be taking up the hard drive.
> 
> I had some recovery issues but this is ridiculous, I am very puzzled as to where 97.85 GB worth of Content could possibly be hiding on my system.
> 
> Any suggestions? I am not exactly excited about the prospects of doing a full wipe and re-install but I have entire libraries of media that I can't bring back onto the machine at this point.
> 
> Kevin