space on C (system) partition - it should be more space ?

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Djis

When I look free space in Windows Explorer for C
partition it shows that I have only 500 MB free.
But when I chek size all files on C partitioon, it should
be more free space on C (about 3 GB).

Does somebody know what happened?

thanks
Djis
 
Check and make sure that you have hidden files and system files showing as
well.

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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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