Backup Question

[rq]

I have a 300 gig external drive I use for backups. It says I have about 40 gigs free space. When I add the file and folder sizes that are listed, I come up with around 60 gigs. That means there is almost 200 gigs floating around that are not accounted for. Can someone give me a reason why this situation exists. It seems that a lot of space is being counted as used, even though, from the list, this does not show up.

Any advice would be appreciated.

rq

 

[Richard Urban]

Your 300 gig drive is roughly 279 gig after formatting (300 x .93151 = 279.453 gig).

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


I have a 300 gig external drive I use for backups. It says I have about 40 gigs free space. When I add the file and folder sizes that are listed, I come up with around 60 gigs. That means there is almost 200 gigs floating around that are not accounted for. Can someone give me a reason why this situation exists. It seems that a lot of space is being counted as used, even though, from the list, this does not show up.

Any advice would be appreciated.

rq

 

[Manny Weisbord]

I have a 300 gig external drive I use for backups. It says I have about 40 gigs free space. When I add the file and folder sizes that are listed, I come up with around 60 gigs. That means there is almost 200 gigs floating around that are not accounted for. Can someone give me a reason why this situation exists. It seems that a lot of space is being counted as used, even though, from the list, this does not show up.

Any advice would be appreciated.

rq

Go into Control Panel (Classic view), Admin Tools, Computer
Management, Disk Management.

What does it show there?