Hard Drive Space

[S Morabito]

I have windows XP on a 6gb Fat 32 drive. It says that
the drive has got 3.01 gb used. Yet when I drag around
all the files(and hidden ones) The computer says 1.83 gb
actually on disk. So to make it short, Where has that
1.18 gb of my hard drive gone???

[JBM]

A file on the drive may take up 4 sectors but is actually only 3.5
sectors in size. More data can't be written to the 4 the sector.
If you right click on a file and click on properties you'll see two
items, size of file and size on disk.

Jim Manning

"S Morabito" > wrote in message
...
> I have windows XP on a 6gb Fat 32 drive. It says that
> the drive has got 3.01 gb used. Yet when I drag around
> all the files(and hidden ones) The computer says 1.83 gb
> actually on disk. So to make it short, Where has that
> 1.18 gb of my hard drive gone???

[Bob Willard]

S Morabito wrote:
> I have windows XP on a 6gb Fat 32 drive. It says that
> the drive has got 3.01 gb used. Yet when I drag around
> all the files(and hidden ones) The computer says 1.83 gb
> actually on disk. So to make it short, Where has that
> 1.18 gb of my hard drive gone???

A big chunk is used, by default, for XP's restore area.
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Cheers, Bob

[Alex Nichol]

S Morabito wrote:

>I have windows XP on a 6gb Fat 32 drive. It says that
>the drive has got 3.01 gb used. Yet when I drag around
>all the files(and hidden ones) The computer says 1.83 gb
>actually on disk. So to make it short, Where has that
>1.18 gb of my hard drive gone???

Into hidden and protected mode files. Take Folder Options - View, and
select 'show hidden files' and uncheck 'Hide Protected . . .files'



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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.