I have an external firewire drive with a 60 gig hard drive in it. Under the NTFS system it has always shown up as a 55.7 gig hard drive. Thats ok but what happens is that the amount of space i have used and the amount showing left to use are at odds.
For instance, i should have 55.7 gigs of space available.
Right now my drive says that I have less than 18 gigs free, meaning I have used up 38 gigs. But when i add up the total size of the files and folders on my drive, it only comes up to about 9 gigs. I realize that even an empty recycle bin takes up space, but I have set it to only 3% of the drive. I am not running goback either.
So why is it that I am short about 28 gigs of drive space?
thanks
For instance, i should have 55.7 gigs of space available.
Right now my drive says that I have less than 18 gigs free, meaning I have used up 38 gigs. But when i add up the total size of the files and folders on my drive, it only comes up to about 9 gigs. I realize that even an empty recycle bin takes up space, but I have set it to only 3% of the drive. I am not running goback either.
So why is it that I am short about 28 gigs of drive space?
thanks