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Empty 110 GB NTFS partition. Why only 99 GB free space?

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Running Windows 2000 SP4, I have a 160 GB HD divided into two partitions, the larger being 110 GB NTFS. I have deleted all the files. There are some folders, but no files. Why does the 110 GB partition only have 99 GB free space? I have Norton Systemworks installed but file protection is turned off for all drives. Is there a way I can retrieve the space? Thanks.
 
GB have two standards for measurement

GB=1,000,000,000bytes (HDD manufacturer standard)
GB=1,073,741,824bytes (OS/software standard)

This accounts for most of your discrepency.
 
Originally posted by: miahallen
GB have two standards for measurement

GB=1,000,000,000bytes (HDD manufacturer standard)
GB=1,073,741,824bytes (OS/software standard)

This accounts for most of your discrepency.
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GB = 10^9 bytes
GiB = 2^30 bytes
 
Originally posted by: miahallen
Thanks, that's the same thing I just said...I just put it in plain English.
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You can't really say that something is equal to two different things. 😀

Anyway, the standard now is that GB is 10^9 and GiB is 2^30, even though Windows measures size using GiB and claims that it's GB.
 
I just defraged the drive and it still says:

Volume 160_NTFS (I):
Volume size = 109 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 10,651 MB
Free space = 99 GB
Percent free space = 90 %

That shows used space at over 10 GB. Why is that?
 
Originally posted by: Arkane13131
hidden files and folders?
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I have my system configured to display them. Sure, they exist, but why would they take up 10 GB? It seems pretty strange to me.
 
Do you have indexing service enabled? That always seems to blow up to large sizes fast - maybe was left over from before you formated? Possibly system restore service eating up space as well?
 
Originally posted by: miahallen
GB have two standards for measurement

GB=1,000,000,000bytes (HDD manufacturer standard)
GB=1,073,741,824bytes (OS/software standard)

This accounts for most of your discrepency.
Click to expand...

... dear god man.. please tell me you looked up that number for the OS standard... LoL, if you didnt give me your address and ill see if i can order you a Ho lol
 
Originally posted by: Tsuwamono
Originally posted by: miahallen
GB have two standards for measurement

GB=1,000,000,000bytes (HDD manufacturer standard)
GB=1,073,741,824bytes (OS/software standard)

This accounts for most of your discrepency.
Click to expand...

... dear god man.. please tell me you looked up that number for the OS standard... LoL, if you didnt give me your address and ill see if i can order you a Ho lol
Click to expand...

... or maybe he just typed in 2^30 on a calculator? There's nothing mysterious about it.
 
Originally posted by: GimpyFuzznut
Do you have indexing service enabled? That always seems to blow up to large sizes fast - maybe was left over from before you formated? Possibly system restore service eating up space as well?
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I think you got it. The Indexing Service is enabled, I think. How do I decide if I want that? What are the +'s and -'s? Link? Thanks.

Edit: I just turned off indexing for this partition, but the free space remains the same. 99 GB.

 
Originally posted by: Bootstrap
Originally posted by: Tsuwamono
Originally posted by: miahallen
GB have two standards for measurement

GB=1,000,000,000bytes (HDD manufacturer standard)
GB=1,073,741,824bytes (OS/software standard)

This accounts for most of your discrepency.
Click to expand...

... dear god man.. please tell me you looked up that number for the OS standard... LoL, if you didnt give me your address and ill see if i can order you a Ho lol
Click to expand...

... or maybe he just typed in 2^30 on a calculator? There's nothing mysterious about it.
Click to expand...

Or 1024x1024x1024
 
Its your pagefile... look on that harddrive for a file called pagefile.sys and look how big it is. It's a system file, so make sure you have system files unhidden.
 
Originally posted by: tw33ter
Its your pagefile... look on that harddrive for a file called pagefile.sys and look how big it is. It's a system file, so make sure you have system files unhidden.
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Your page file is only 1.5x times the size of ram. (by default.) Inorder to have 10gb of space used by pagefile he would need alota ram.
 
I just figured out what it was. Even though I deleted everything in my Norton Protected Recycle Bin and turned off Norton file protection on the drive, there was about 10 GB of protected files in the RECYCLER directory for the drive. It never lapsed, just sat there. I deleted the files and now, voila, 109 GB free!

Why do they have separate directories for deleted files? I don't get the paradigm. There's a Norton Protected Recycle Bin for the machine as a whole and a directory called I:\RECYCLER\NPROTECT which had the files.
 
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