WinXP reports incorrect disk space

[Ridyah]

Can anyone help?

All my three physical hard drives are using FAT32. I tried deleting some files to free disk space (I deleted a large file like 300MB before) but in explorer the free space figures are still the same. I rebooted, ran Norton Disk Doctor, Norton Wipe Info, defragemented my HDD's (using WinXP built-in defrag program) and ran CHKDSK but nothing gets fixed.

Strangely, it does somehow manages to fix itself automatically, maybe a few hours later, or sometimes, a few minutes. Why this randomness?

And this problem never happened to me before. What's going on?

[glc]

Are you dumping the recycle bin? Do you have the Norton recycle bin? If so, you have to dump that too.

As an aside, I don't trust FAT32 in XP, when NTFS is far superior in all respects. If you aren't dual booting with 9x/ME, convert the drives.

[Ridyah]

Oh, thank you! It was the Norton recycle bin, and I purged the files now. Funny how sometimes how big problems look are actually small problems.