Was clearing out a load of crap off my HD and managed to get rid of what it said was over 1gig of Car videos (i still have about 7gig of em on there ).

Turned PC off about 30mins later.

Turned it on later and suddenly it says i got at least 700meg less than before

Usually when turn on a PC it says more HD room than last time it was on, not less

Wheres the space gone?

 

run scandisk, it'll come back

your file allocation table has gone a bit funky.

this could be avoided by moving to windows 2K / XP and using NTFS as youre file system

 

stone age steve

 

Empty recycle bin?

 

Windows could have increased the size of your virtual memory Swap File. Now you got more space, Windows has seen this and increased the VM size???

steve

 

steve,T, possible... but by 700mb? doubt it

 

Well i know feck all about PCs, but im not daft enough to not have emptyd the Recycle bin Also deleted everything from the temp files but it wasnt that.

Il try scandisk later then.

(good old windows 98 BTW )

 

aye

 

Itsmeagain,

 

stsve, just incase you didn't know... the underlying technology behind the interface in 98 was first released in 1992. and the file system itself and basic core was released in 1981

 

No i didnt know, frankly, i didnt care, but i kinda understand it, and it dont cost me owt, and it works, so its staying

(i guess i did know, as 98 works pretty much like Windows 3.1 used to back in the day )

 

What were you doing on the mahcine, how much RAM (memory) do you have, the changes are it has been eated up by the swap file, depending on how many apps you have open at once.

 

actually i take that back, it was 1984 not 1981 so your OS isn't quite as old as i am...

 

Jim you geek!
The NTFS file system was introduced in 1993. Hardly a spring chicken is it! LOL! We due for a new Windows file system yet? Wasn't something special planned for Longhorn, but MS decided against it? Cut it down?

steve

 

yeah but NTFS works

 

Jimbooooo

You were spot on mate, ran scandisk and lo and behold ive suddenly got another 1.3gig space

Next question tho, why on a "40gig" HD it says the capacity is only 37?

BTW im lovin broadband

 

Usually I would say that's due to windows XP hogging 2 gig for the system, but, a win 98 install usually only takes up 500 mb of space, so, why you're 3 gig short i'm not sure. That's one hell of a fat table if windows has hogged it

 

because for each bit of physical space on the disk, a small chunk of it is used to store the file details etc. (heres a good example... did you know you can physically fit 2mb of sdata ona 1.44mb floppy disk )

this will be very evident ona 40gb FAT32 partition, as it uses up a lot of space for that kinda stuff...

keep your partitions small and use lots of them to minimise the impact (impracticle) or just use sodding NTFS (W2k/XP)

 

ps on one of my disk arrays i have 320gb of space and i can only use 305 of it... thats 15 GIG lost

 

Like i even know what a partition on a HD is

You give me far too much credit

 

what do you think a partition is :P

think about a room... it might have a partition yes... what does it do :P