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Wizzard~Of~Ozz · March 3rd, 2003, 04:53 PM

Ryder, What file system are you using on your drive (fat32 or NTFS) and how large is the drive? If it is a larger partition and the programs have a lot of small files (or a lot of files) then it can consume a lot more diskspace then the combined files. Fat is worse then NTFS in this respect

Also the BIOS doesn't care about HD space used/free, all it cares about is total size and C/H/S (physical specs) the OS and file system are the only things that report HD usage info.

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Wizzard~Of~Ozz Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Hamilton, On, Ca Posts: 2,620	Ryder, What file system are you using on your drive (fat32 or NTFS) and how large is the drive? If it is a larger partition and the programs have a lot of small files (or a lot of files) then it can consume a lot more diskspace then the combined files. Fat is worse then NTFS in this respect Also the BIOS doesn't care about HD space used/free, all it cares about is total size and C/H/S (physical specs) the OS and file system are the only things that report HD usage info. Last edited by Wizzard~Of~Ozz : March 3rd, 2003 at 04:57 PM.