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Bob - 14 Apr 2004 14:50 GMT

My hard drive is partitioned into 1.95G chunks because of
BIOS limitations. I have copied stuff originally on C to
other drives, I have "disk cleaned up", defragmented, etc,
and avoid adding anything to C. When I add up the size of
folders and programs from Windows Explorer it comes to
less than 300M, yet available disc space "quoted" from
explorer and disk Properties in My Computer show a drive
at near capacity. There has to be invisible stuff on
there I would like to know how to remove.

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Ron Martell - 14 Apr 2004 20:03 GMT

>My hard drive is partitioned into 1.95G chunks because of
>BIOS limitations. I have copied stuff originally on C to
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>at near capacity. There has to be invisible stuff on
>there I would like to know how to remove.

Open a DOS Window and enter the following command:

DIR C:\ /S /A /V

The screen will scroll wildly for several minutes and the final
summary should give you a pretty good idea of how much is on the hard
drive.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

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AlmostBob - 20 Apr 2004 10:13 GMT

BIOS limitations and 2 gig 'chunks' suggests that these partitions are Fat16
partitions, the a 2 gig partion uses (I think) 32K cluster size (there will be
plenty of pedants to correct any errors Im sure), that meas that every file
occupies a minumum of 32 k, so there is a lot of un-useable slack space on the
drive, (the difference between file size and clusters used) Check out
converting them to Fat32 where you will recover much of the 'missing' drive
space

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| My hard drive is partitioned into 1.95G chunks because of
| BIOS limitations. I have copied stuff originally on C to
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
| at near capacity. There has to be invisible stuff on
| there I would like to know how to remove.

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