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Free space error?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by ASHBURRN, 2002/01/11.

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  1. 2002/01/11
    ASHBURRN

    ASHBURRN Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello

    I noticed something about the free space of my first partition, which has a total capacity of 19.1 GB.

    Get a load of these numbers:


    Total capacity: 19.1 GB
    Free space: 3 GB

    However, when I select every file (including hidden and swap file) on that partition and click Properties, I get: 12.5 GB

    What gives? Any idea?
     
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    Newt

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    If you have lots and lots of small files you could easily lose that much space to overhead. I took the following from a help file:
    Does a defrag run OK? It should maybe help some if the above is adding to your problem. Bad sectors will do that sort of thing too.

    NTFS or FAT32?
     
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  4. 2002/01/12
    ASHBURRN

    ASHBURRN Inactive Thread Starter

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    I am running NTFS. There are no bad sectors on my hard drive .. certainly not a few GB of them.

    Any other idea?
     
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