Hard drive Free Space Problem

[Norbi44]

Hello !
I'm running Windows XP SP2 on my system.I have one drive which is 160G.
I have 2 partitions on it, C: partition and D: partition.
C: is only 30G and D: 120G
My problem is that windows show wrong amount of free space on my D
partition. I have 41G used to get that number I used "dir /a/s" but When I
got to Property on the portion it show what I have 110 used.
I'm not sure why it show that way.
I'm using NSFS file system.
Any one has any ideas how to fix this

Thanks
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE]

To a drive manufacturer a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.
To Microsoft a gigabyte is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes.
You do the rest of the arithmetric.

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[Michael C]

Hello !
I'm running Windows XP SP2 on my system.I have one drive which is 160G.
I have 2 partitions on it, C: partition and D: partition.
C: is only 30G and D: 120G
My problem is that windows show wrong amount of free space on my D
partition. I have 41G used to get that number I used "dir /a/s" but When I
got to Property on the portion it show what I have 110 used.
I'm not sure why it show that way.
I'm using NSFS file system.
Any one has any ideas how to fix this

A 1 byte file will take up 4096 bytes on a hdd and more if your allocation
size is larger. It will show as 1 byte using dir but will take 4096 bytes
away from your free space. If you have a large number of small files this
could be the problem. It is also possible that the amount of free space is
being reported incorrectly which can be solved by a scandisk I believe.

Michael

 

[Michael C]

To a drive manufacturer a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.
To Microsoft a gigabyte is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes.
You do the rest of the arithmetric.

That's not going to increase the amount *used* by 1 byte.

Michael

 

[Jim Macklin]

Yes, an 160 GB advertised hard disk will format with about
148 GB available, there is an overhead used to create the
format structure and a byte is a binary number, but
advertisers use decimal.


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message | "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
| | > To a drive manufacturer a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000
bytes.
| > To Microsoft a gigabyte is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 =
1,073,741,824 bytes.
| > You do the rest of the arithmetric.
|
| That's not going to increase the amount *used* by 1 byte.
|
| Michael
|
|

 

[Michael C]

Yes, an 160 GB advertised hard disk will format with about
148 GB available, there is an overhead used to create the
format structure and a byte is a binary number, but
advertisers use decimal.

But the amount of space *used* will be the same. I'm not talking about the
amount of space *free*.

Michael

 

[Kadaitcha Man]

A 1 byte file will take up 4096 bytes on a hdd

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!! What if he has 16, 32 or even 64k clusters, you
completely stupid ****?

 

[Kadaitcha Man]

To a drive manufacturer a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.
To Microsoft a gigabyte is 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes.
You do the rest of the arithmetric.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You completely useless piece of shit.

 

[Kadaitcha Man]

Hello !
I'm running Windows XP SP2 on my system.I have one drive which is
160G.
I have 2 partitions on it, C: partition and D: partition.
C: is only 30G and D: 120G
My problem is that windows show wrong amount of free space on my D
partition. I have 41G used to get that number I used "dir /a/s" but
When I got to Property on the portion it show what I have 110 used.
I'm not sure why it show that way.
I'm using NSFS file system.
Any one has any ideas how to fix this

It's not necessarily b0rken, so it doesn't necessarily need fixing. Most of
it will be taken up in hidden files such as the MFT and system restore crap,
amongst other things. However, that would not not account for what looks
like a 70GB difference, unless you have a massive pagefile and an equally
massive system restore points... so some file may have shat itself all over
your disk.

Read this: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315688

 

[HillBillyBuddhist]

| Hello !
| I'm running Windows XP SP2 on my system.I have one drive which is 160G.
| I have 2 partitions on it, C: partition and D: partition.
| C: is only 30G and D: 120G
| My problem is that windows show wrong amount of free space on my D
| partition. I have 41G used to get that number I used "dir /a/s" but When I
| got to Property on the portion it show what I have 110 used.
| I'm not sure why it show that way.
| I'm using NSFS file system.
| Any one has any ideas how to fix this
|
| Thanks
| (e-mail address removed)

SequoiaView is an excellent free (and clean) utility helpful in tracking
down mysterious missing drive space.

It provides a one window graphical representation of which files are taking
up how much space where on a drive, often quickly and easily tracking down
files that Windows is reluctant to reveal.

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

(It's kinda fun too)


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