re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 6:42 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tcam
(2 messages posted)
This problem has been plaguing Windows systems for years, and the Microsoft site
is just awful when you need a specific search on the matter. Anyhoo, I know that
in win98 a run of scan disk would remedy the problem by fixing the boot sector, as
the boot sector is where the OS gets its drive parameters, so a problem there could
mean a misreport of drive space. I know that some of you guys have run scan disk
on NT/Win2000 systems and still get the misreport. This may be due to windows not
updating after it deletes a file. Remember that Windows only removes the first letter
of the File/Dir when it deletes, so that it knows that new DATA can be stored in
those sectors/clusters.
Maybe running the defrag will help, but 1. If the MFT is a good size an ntfs partition
really should not be too fragmented 2. This sometimes only makes for a temporary
fix, as the drive may misreport the next day or so.
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