re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at 8:55 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Robert
(2 messages posted)
After deleting some more GBs worth of data the problem went away atleast improved.
I guess it has something to do with the drive beeing exetremely full like 5GB of
111GB free. I have after numerous runins like this declared Windows useless and is
only ment for n00bs and the weak, I have now wholly moved to linux, and I'm planning
to convert my disklayout to something more useful than 200GB of games and movies.
(at a lossy FAT32 disklayout)
On Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 6:42 am, tcam wrote:
>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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