re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 5:51 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Curt R
(1315 messages posted)
What makes you think windows is misreporting your hard drive size? What most
people aren't aware of is that the manufacturers of HD's use a different method of
calculating hard drive size. I could look up the explanation (I forget it offhand)
but I do know that the size rating on an HD is often larger than the actual (real)
size of the HD. I bought a 15 GB HD some time back, it shows as being just 14 GB's
in 2000. When you do the calculations for size the correct way, that's what it works
out to be....14 GB's. I believe you've probably run into one of these situations,
where the mfg's rating is higher than the actual size of the HD.
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001 at 12:10 pm, Thankful wrote:
>Regarding "Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space
>Bug)" and the Windows Annoyances comment that "Windows 2000 and XP, when running
>on FAT32, don't appear to suffer from this problem":
>
>Sorry, Windows 2000 DOES INDEED SUFFER FROM THE FAT32 FREE-SPACE BUG. After trying
>to get the bug-filled Norton Disk Doctor 2001 to fix it, I am now sitting through
>Win98's ScanDskW, after having first run ScanDisk after a boot/F8. (I have a dual-boot
>PC.) What an ABSOLUTE pain in the ass!
>
>P.S. Found your note about the free-space bug only AFTER having waded thru Symantec's
>CRAPPY support site. All they want to do is shove LiveUpdate and paid-support subscriptions
>down your throat. I've found a number of UNDOCUMENTED bugs in their NDD, Ghost,
>etc. products...and gotten confirmation from one of their techs (after a STRUGGLE).
>
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