XP Hard Drive Size Reported 1

[Boozer]

Using NTFS, I have 120GB drive partitioned into a 9.7GB system drive and 102GB storage drive. For a total of 111GB, I know I lose that appx 9GB due to addressing and partition. What I dont understand is on my system drive, it reports I have 3.78GB of free space. I displayed all hidden and hidden system files, emptied the recycle bin, turned off sys restore, and select all files on the system drive and they total up to 4.7GB. So, if I take 9.7GB total minus 4.7GB file size on disk, I should have 5GB of free space not 3.78GB. Same on my storage drive, 102GB total size, 3.42GB total file size on disk, which should leave me 98.58GB free. But XP reports I only have 92.1GB free. So between the two partitions, I have lost 9GB to file system addressing and another 7.3GB to something that is unknown to me. So I get 104GB usable off a 120GB drive. Is that about right? Any way to regain some of that lost space (besides having 10 partitions )

 

[wolluf]

To start with, a 120GB drive (size as per manufacturer) will be 120,000,000,000 bytes - I GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. This will translate to c. 111GB in Windows (different definition of GB - 1,073,741,824 (1024 cubed) bytes. Some process also use 1,048,576,000 or 1,024,000,000 definitions of GB.

You could try something like

http://www.lpacomputers.telinco.co.uk/ddsetup.zip

to investigate what's on the partitions.

 

[bcastner]

There are a lot of other things not reported that are in fact disk space in use:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315688&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH