Re: NTFS Question - Windows 2000

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Hello Andrew,

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

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Meinolf Weber (Myweb)
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In article <1187933164.374547.34000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ryan.d.rembaum@xxxxxx says...

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.msp
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