Can't use full capacity...

[green2]

Hello everyone....

I have 2 drives installed on my computer an 80gig (c drive) and 120gig (d drive).... I'm almost full in my 80 gig so decided to start filling up my 120... However when I get to using about 100gig in the d drive, it keeps saying free more space when I tried adding more data... Why can't I use all the 120gig?

I am running windows ME right now (because the windows XP that I bought has not shown up... you trader out there you know who you are....)... I have a ECS mobo and the regular AMD XP 1700 (no plan to overclock).....

Someone help me please.... Thank you...

 

[amdskip]

First contact troll hunters about the xp problem ~ http://www.trollhunters.com

What does windows say the formatted size is and is it fat32 or ntfs.

 

[green2]

Thanks for the reply... it's saying it has 111GB after formatting... So far I have used 88.2GB and now have 23.4GB free... But it won't let me use the remaing 23 gigs.... I formatted it using regular FAT 32 because i am running windows ME.... Any ideas? :confused

 

[Zepper]

Some disk space is reserved for Recycle Bin in each partition - empty 'em. It is usually set at 10% (user adjustable) plus the FATs and folder info (linked long file names, etc.) on the large drives take up a lot of space .
You better give up the pr0n... - or whatever else is taking up all that space.
.b.h.
Where's the :sun: ?

 

[Bglad]

A 120g drive will show as less in Windows due to differences in the way Windows figures space and the way disk manufacturers figure space.

I can't remember exactly but hard drive manufacturers figure 1mb=1000 bytes but Windows figures 1mb=1024 bytes or something like that.

This is completely normal. A drive will always show up in Windows as smaller than it said on the box.

[edit] I think wasted space should be more like 10% though. Your 20% wasted space does seem too high.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Do you have your swap file on this drive? Recycle bin? Have you defragged lately to roll up slack?

 

[EeyoreX]

Your drive is reporting the correct size. No matter what yuou (defrag, adjust recycle bin properties, etc) Windows will see the drive as having 111.76GB. This is because manufacturers use the decimal system (1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) while Windows uses the binary system (1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes). I answer this question so often, I bookmarked this explaination over at Western Digital's site. The table near the bottom of the page is especially helpful.

\Dan

 

[green2]

Thanks for all the replies..... Actually I was just using to temporarily store my anime..

Yes I do understand that windows doesn't is calculating the mbs differently and 111.7? is not bad... But the problem is when I tried copying some more anime it's telling me "not enought space" when it's showing it's only up to 84gigs... so I should have like 30gigs left that I can't seem to use....