re: Lost space on disk
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 11:53 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1596 messages posted)
Do you have you Computer set to show Hidden files?
Are any of the Files Compressed? Depending on how you access a file it will display
the compressed size or the Un-compressed size. You could also be seeing the Difference
between the Actual size and the Size on Disk.
Your HDD cluster size (set on Install) could explain the difference. Files always
claim the Whole Cluster. The Difference between Actual file size and size on Disk
is called Slack Space.(google)
Have you used Disk Cleanup lately? Is the Compress old files option Checked?
How HDD's store info.
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/clusters.htm
Seems like you are trying to do something you are not asking about directly. What
are you trying to accomplish?
BW
On Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10:09 am, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote:
>I open C: drive to Documents and Settings(490MB). I open this folder and get one
>of the folders Reuven(464MB).On opening this folder I get- Cookies(32KB), Desktop(56MB),
>Favorites(1KB), My Doc(50MB), ntuserDat.file(6mb). These files total 113MB, but
the
>size of the folder Reuven in which they are is 464MB. A difference of 350 MB. What
>has happened to the missing space?
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- Lost space on disk (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 10:09 am)
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