available disk space

[Guest]

I have Windows 2000 server with a 6GB c:\ drive. If I look at the available
disk space it is 900MB but if I look at all the files on the drive, including
hidden and system, they only total 3GB. I can't figure out how to get the
space back that I am missing. My cluster size is set to 512 bytes.

Thanks in advance for our help!!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have Windows 2000 server with a 6GB c:\ drive. If I look at the available
disk space it is 900MB but if I look at all the files on the drive, including
hidden and system, they only total 3GB. I can't figure out how to get the
space back that I am missing. My cluster size is set to 512 bytes.

Thanks in advance for our help!!

You're obviously ignoring some files and folders. One of these
tools might help:

DriveUse:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

 

[Dave Patrick]

And to add to that also consider that every file and directory listing (no
matter what size) takes up at least one cluster. Slack space is the area
between the end of the file and the end of the cluster. It can be calculated
roughly by taking 1/2 of the drive's allocation unit (cluster size) times
the number of files, this is the average wasted space. If you have a lot of
small files then the wasted space figure could be larger.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| You're obviously ignoring some files and folders. One of these
| tools might help:
|
| DriveUse:
| http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
| Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/
|
|

 

[Geir Klemetsen]

I have Windows 2000 server with a 6GB c:\ drive. If I look at the available
disk space it is 900MB but if I look at all the files on the drive, including
hidden and system, they only total 3GB. I can't figure out how to get the
space back that I am missing. My cluster size is set to 512 bytes.

Thanks in advance for our help!!

A couple of years ago, i wrote a vbs script (just for fun). I had an 100Mb
zip drive, and got the script to create 5 folders on the disc with random
names. inside each of each folder it was created yet another 5 folders. So
it goes until there was no more space on the disc. And then it began to
delete every folder that didn't contains any folders, and keep going
deleting folders until there where zero folders on the disc.

When the script task finished (spending more than 2 hours constsant writing)
windows reported avaiable space on disc was very close to zero. The disc was
formated with NTFS. But it didn't contains any data as far I could see.