Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Friday, September 19, 2003 at 10:11 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tatag
(1 messages posted)
I have a question about Explorer
is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug):
I have a dual boot system (Millenium on a 40 GB FAT32 partition + XP on a 40 GB NTFS
partition). I use 2 maxtor ATA133 D740X 40 GB disks mounted in RAID 0 on a HPT372
controller. As disks were full, I decide to upgrade to a RAID 0+1 stucture with 4
maxtor 160 GB disks. With new version of drive image 7, I made an image of the FAT32
partition, and an image of the NTFS partition on a temporary IDE disk. Then I install
the 4 new disks, create my RAID 0+1 structure, and made a restore with powerquest
PQRE software. Everything works fine, except that it forces me to have a 137 GB FAT32
parition and balance (320-137) on NTFS. I suppose it is due to the 137 GB limitation,
even if my motherboard accepts such big hard drives, more than 137 GB.
Finally, after migration, dual boot is working fine, XP is working fine with a lot
of free space, but Millenium has a problem. Explorer says that I have a 40 GB disk
with some 100 MB free space!!! I should have about 90 GB free.
I run scandisk in Millenium 12 hours along with no network connection, but it does
not solve the problem. I think scandisk does not perform its job, it always restart
saying someone has written to the disk forcing to restart its process.
In XP disk management, I see my 2 partitions with the real right size, I also see
it in Millenium. So, I think disk partitionning is well done.
Any idea to solve the problem?
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