Hard Drive Space?
03 September 2003, 09:45 AM
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Just installed a 120 gig drive for data.
Immediately after partitioning and formating (NTFS) it reports formatted capacity of around 111 gig. Also tells me 69.1 meg of the disk is used. Is this about right? What is the 69 meg for?
Immediately after partitioning and formating (NTFS) it reports formatted capacity of around 111 gig. Also tells me 69.1 meg of the disk is used. Is this about right? What is the 69 meg for?
03 September 2003, 11:08 AM
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03 September 2003, 02:23 PM
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The drive is empty as far as I am concerned - the values I give above were fromthe Explorer properties page for the drive immediately after formatting it.
I'm guessing that the formatted capacity is probably correct, as I've just checked an 80 gig drive, and that has a capacity of 74.4 gig, so 5.6 gig is "lost" to the formatting fairy. Assuming this figure increases proportionately, a 120 gig drive should have roughly 1.5 times the capacity of the 80 gig, = 111.60.
Still puzzled as to why it says 69.1 meg of the drive is used - could this be for the recycle bin perhaps?
I'm guessing that the formatted capacity is probably correct, as I've just checked an 80 gig drive, and that has a capacity of 74.4 gig, so 5.6 gig is "lost" to the formatting fairy. Assuming this figure increases proportionately, a 120 gig drive should have roughly 1.5 times the capacity of the 80 gig, = 111.60.
Still puzzled as to why it says 69.1 meg of the drive is used - could this be for the recycle bin perhaps?
03 September 2003, 09:35 PM
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NTFS has something called metadata NTFS system files.
One of these files is the "master file table" in which it stores all the info on the files that you put on the disk.
There's some good info on http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/arch_MFT.htm, but in short you should expect to lose some space to file system overheads. This doesn't sound too bad really...
One of these files is the "master file table" in which it stores all the info on the files that you put on the disk.
There's some good info on http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/arch_MFT.htm, but in short you should expect to lose some space to file system overheads. This doesn't sound too bad really...
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03 September 2003, 09:56 PM
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Cheers. I expected to lose some, wasn't sure how much though and just needed to check that this was normal behaviour.
Thanks for the help
Thanks for the help
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