Large file deletion, but no new free space

[Jeff]

I have been working with Sonic Foundry's VideoFactory to
make a video of a recent vacation, though I ended up
running out of disk space when I tried to render the
project as a .avi file. However, when I went to delete
the .avi file, which was about 45GB in size, the file has
disappeared, but none of the space that it was taking up
has been freed. When I originally tried to delete it, I
received a pop-up box stating that it was too big to fit
in the recycle bin and that it would be deleted outright.
I confirmed the deletion, and cannot find the file
anywhere on the partition where it was, but like I said
the 45GB is still shown as used instead of free.

[RM]

Have you ran a chkdsk at startup?

"Jeff" > wrote in message
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> I have been working with Sonic Foundry's VideoFactory to
> make a video of a recent vacation, though I ended up
> running out of disk space when I tried to render the
> project as a .avi file. However, when I went to delete
> the .avi file, which was about 45GB in size, the file has
> disappeared, but none of the space that it was taking up
> has been freed. When I originally tried to delete it, I
> received a pop-up box stating that it was too big to fit
> in the recycle bin and that it would be deleted outright.
> I confirmed the deletion, and cannot find the file
> anywhere on the partition where it was, but like I said
> the 45GB is still shown as used instead of free.