You didn't mention if you included the pagefile and or any hidden, system
files in the search. Also consider that every file and directory listing (no
matter what size) takes up at least one cluster. Slack space is the area
between the end of the file and the end of the cluster. It can be calculated
roughly by taking 1/2 of the drive's allocation unit (cluster size) times
the number of files, this is the average wasted space. If you have a lot of
small files then the wasted space figure could be larger.
From a command prompt at the root of the drive in question;
chkdsk
to find out your cluster size (allocation unit)
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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
jekenstierna said:
I have a D: partition that is 12.9 gb with only 5.2 gb of data on it, and
no matter how I look at it, it show as being full. Does anyone know how to
recover the missing drive space? I have talked to technical support on the
hardware and they say its an OS problem.
