NTFS Question - Windows 2000

[Ryan]

Hello,

I recently bought a two new 500GB drives and have them hooked up to a
Rosewill RAID card (RC-209) in RAID1. Windows 2000 sees a single
500GB drive and all is good. I created a new partition format the
drive with 512 cluster size, and when finished I have working disk
that show 180MB of used space in 3 files. I only know there are three
files because of disk defrag. The same method shows the MFT is only
about 27KB. So a few questions:

1) What are the three files (is MFT one of these?)
2) Which is taking up 180MB?
3) Since I thought OS files were not included in used-space
calculations, why am I showing used space.
4) Is there a way to view the files?

Thanks!
Ryan

 

[DL]

Assuming the raid drive is your o/s, C drive, the win installation & page
file will be included in used space
What does explorer show?

 

[Ryan]

Assuming the raid drive is your o/s, C drive, the win installation & page
file will be included in used space
What does explorer show?









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Hi DL,

The drive does not contain the OS, and nothing is displayed in
explorer although I have selected to display system and hidden files.
I even tried a directory scan using the /ah and /as attribute. No
files or directories show, but the system information windows on the
left shows 180megs of disk used. I even tried a slow format. What
file would be so big on a newly formatted drive and why is there no
trace?!

 

[Meinolf Weber (Myweb)]

Hello Ryan,

If you convert a disk to NTFS it will loose some space depending on the size
of the harddisk for the NTFS functionality.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber (Myweb)
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[Andrew Rossmann]

Hello,

I recently bought a two new 500GB drives and have them hooked up to a
Rosewill RAID card (RC-209) in RAID1. Windows 2000 sees a single
500GB drive and all is good. I created a new partition format the
drive with 512 cluster size, and when finished I have working disk
that show 180MB of used space in 3 files. I only know there are three
files because of disk defrag. The same method shows the MFT is only
about 27KB. So a few questions:

1) What are the three files (is MFT one of these?)
2) Which is taking up 180MB?
3) Since I thought OS files were not included in used-space
calculations, why am I showing used space.
4) Is there a way to view the files?

A few articles on NTFS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174619
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315688
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/NtfsInfo.mspx

 

[Meinolf Weber (Myweb)]

Hello Andrew,

Nice articles, I also searched for it to get more detailed infos, but did
not found anything. Now i have )

Best regards

Meinolf Weber (Myweb)
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.