This may not be the right forum but I have learned so much about computer application hanging out here ~ so here is my problem. About a week ago I had 3.87 GB of space on my hard drive. Yesterday I had 967 MB. I decided to defragment for starters. The Scan Disk box appeared and gave me three options saying there was a very high number (looked like it was in the millions) of bytes of information that couldn't be read. It said it could be useful information but was probably irrelevant and could be deleted freeing space. Options were to create a file for it, delete it and I don't recall the third (maybe ignore it?). I decided not to take a chance at losing valuable download files (mainly music) so saved it as files. Is there a way now to identify and locate these files now to see whether they are useful? Thanks so much ~ and if this is the wrong forum where should it have gone?

Try to run a virus checker. If the files cannot be read they are probably useless. Very strange. Try playing all your mp3 files to make sure they work. I can't imagine what could be on your hard drive all of a sudden that is taking up 2 gigs of space. So run a virus scan. If you don't have one, AVG is available for download free.

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