Win2k is showing my second hdd as 65mb used?

[Roddy]

I recently went from win98se to 2k

After formatting my secondary hdd under windows 2000 in ntfs format, it shows as "65mb used"
yet when i go into the hdd, there are no files or folders

any help much appreciated!

-Rod

 

[Saltin]

Sometimes a permissions problem can cause behaviour like this.
Check the permissions at the root of the drive and make sure the System account has full control permissions to it.

 

[TheWart]

also, i could be wrong, but doesn't NTFS keep some space as overhead for file indexing, security, etc?

 

[Abzstrak]

yes, ntfs takes some but doesn't really show it like that in explorer.

make sure U are showing all hidden file and folders too... just do a "dir /ah /as". There is a recyclye bin folder on every drive, U sure there is nothing in it?

 

[Roddy]

Yeah, done all the above..

seemed to have fixed it 🙂

Thanks