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I have a 1 TB NTFS partition on Windows XP that reports through Explorer
Properties dialog as having 70GB available. When I add up the size of all of the files on disk, there should be 350GB available. I am very aware of cluster sizes and how many small files would take up the minimum cluster size, usually 4096 bytes per file. The problem is the partition in question only holds huge backup files, minimum 1 GB in size. So there are no small files on the partition that would waste empty sections of each cluster. I emptied the Recycle Bin, so deleted files are not accounting for this issue. What would account for the waste of space being reported by the OS? What tools might help me to explore this further? -- W |
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