re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 2:02 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Fahim (2 messages posted) Uhhhhhh, just to be clear, Are you complaining about a misreport on the disk CAPACITY or a misreport on the disk FREE SPACE? Windows XP is giving me problems with Misreporting the FREE SPACE - my CAPACITY is fine. I can't figure it out and haven't found any solutions to this problem yet - although, it does go away after some time. On Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 5:51 am, Curt R wrote: > 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. > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Curt R: Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 5:51 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Tim: Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 6:39 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Tom: Wed, Nov 14, 2001, 12:10 pm) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Curt R: Thu, Nov 15, 2001, 5:51 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Fahim: Wed, May 29, 2002, 2:02 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Tim: Sat, May 10, 2003, 6:39 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Robert: Mon, Aug 25, 2003, 1:28 pm) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (ricochet: Fri, Sep 12, 2003, 7:32 pm) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (tcam: Thu, Sep 25, 2003, 6:42 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Robert: Wed, Oct 8, 2003, 8:55 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Raphael: Mon, Oct 20, 2003, 9:17 pm) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (lala: Thu, Nov 20, 2003, 8:01 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Jonathan: Thu, Jan 1, 2004, 11:33 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (palfh: Sun, Jan 4, 2004, 6:15 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (D'Vidio: Tue, Jul 19, 2005, 11:58 am) re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (tcam: Thu, Sep 25, 2003, 6:28 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum