re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Friday, May 13, 2005 at 11:41 am
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Posted by Azmath Pasha
(1 messages posted)
Thanks to all of you for the incredible suggestions..
I lost space at the speed of light..
And now i have reduced the amount of space for SystemRestore and i have turned off
Hibernation..
Thank you all very much
On Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 8:31 pm, C K wrote:
>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
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