Re: how to list all files on drive ?

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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:50:53 -0500, "Curt Christianson"
<curtchristnsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

FAT-16, WFW 3.11, and a 45 MB harddrive--I was *crushed* to learn there was
slack space to conend with too! Now hardly anybody ever talks about it.
<bg>



In these days of very big cheap drives, it's seldom worth paying much
attention to.

If you have an NTFS drive with standard 4K clusters and as many as
500,000 files on it, the total slack comes to around 1GB. At today's
drive prices, that's usually worth less than US$1.00.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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