Re: I need some. I have phantom Hard Drive Space!
- From: "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:21:45 -0600
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.
From a command prompt at the root of the drive in question;chkdsk
to find out your cluster size (allocation unit)
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"Master Jedi" wrote:
|I have windows installed on roughly a 17GB Partition (16.7GB), I am low on
| disk space so I checked to see what all the files equaled in total disk
space
| on this partition. According to windows they only take up 10.7GB of hard
disk
| space. I only have a total of 3.33GB so something is going wrong, I've had
| this problem before too and my friend Also has the same problem I believe.
| What do we do to correct Windows and straighten out with a stern manner to
| windows to tell it what is really there? Can anybody help? If so, Thanks
in
| advanced!
|
|
| Best Regards,
|
| Master Jedi
.
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