re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 8:31 pm
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Posted by C K
(6680 messages posted)
Since you have NTFS this isn't the FAT 32 bug. XP installs it's files, swap files,
hibernation reserve space and system restore files which are all hidden but will
be reported as disk space used. NTFS also uses more space for it's file structure
than does FAT. You really need a bigger drive than 5 gig for XP.. We usually recommend
a minimum of 10 at the least. You can unhide/show hidden and system files to see
what is using the space in the C root directory. This is pretty much normal XP disk
usage on install with hibernation and system restore set to max which is why it should
be larger than 5 gig. C K
On Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 4:34 pm, Honn wrote:
>I have a question about Explorer
>is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug):
>i have my windows xp installed on a seperate partition
>i never install any programs on this partition.the format of this partition is NTFS.the
>size of this paritition is 5 gega.when i click properties of this partition it says
>4.5 gega r used.however da total size of the folders inside this partition(documents
>n settings , program files n windows) is only 2 gega.how can i fix this problem?running
>scandisk doesnt fix da problem.
>
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