Hard drive not showing correct amount of space?

[Ryder Zery]

A while ago, on Gateway's website, I found an update for my BIOS. One of the problems it corrects is that some hard drives in Gateway computers will display an incorrect amount of space used up/free. I wasn't 100% sure my hard drive had this problem, but I had noticed some programs/games taking up odd amounts of space (according to My Computer). I never ended up updating.

But today, when I installed Neverwinter Nights, it says I used up over 2 GB of space. The box says it should only take up 1.2 GB. Is there something wrong here? I think there must be.

So I tried updating the BIOS by following the Gateway website's instructions, and it didn't work. So I called Gateway and they said the only way for me to get it updated was to send it in to Gateway, which would take 2 weeks. But he also said there was no reason to update so it would just be a waste of time.

So I ask you. Is there any reason to update, and if so, do you think it would really correct this hard drive problem?

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

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.

[Ryder Zery]

40GB using fat32.