- Mar 15, 2003
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Situation:
- 2 identical external drives, in identical enclosures
- identical file systems (NTFS)
- both connected to the same system (Win7 x64)
Both drives have the same files on them. I mean this quite literally in that I recently formatted the one drive, and copy-pasted the contents of the other drive onto it. I double-checked and both drives have the same number of files and folders, right down to the last byte (both in terms of size and size on disk, as reported by the OS).
And yet, in Windows Explorer...
drive 1: 386 GB free space (of 931 GB)
drive 2: 496 GB free space (of 931 GB)
If it matters, both drives have indexing enabled, and are set for quick-removal. There are no hidden files or folders I'm not seeing on either drive.
I ran a checkdisk on "drive 1", with no errors found. Just finished defragmenting it (pass 1 consolidation took over 3 hours, strangely), and it's still the same.
I have no idea what's causing this.
- 2 identical external drives, in identical enclosures
- identical file systems (NTFS)
- both connected to the same system (Win7 x64)
Both drives have the same files on them. I mean this quite literally in that I recently formatted the one drive, and copy-pasted the contents of the other drive onto it. I double-checked and both drives have the same number of files and folders, right down to the last byte (both in terms of size and size on disk, as reported by the OS).
And yet, in Windows Explorer...
drive 1: 386 GB free space (of 931 GB)
drive 2: 496 GB free space (of 931 GB)
If it matters, both drives have indexing enabled, and are set for quick-removal. There are no hidden files or folders I'm not seeing on either drive.
I ran a checkdisk on "drive 1", with no errors found. Just finished defragmenting it (pass 1 consolidation took over 3 hours, strangely), and it's still the same.
I have no idea what's causing this.