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hello,
I'm using 2 160GB drives in my new system. I've put everything (including the OS) on one drive, and will begin to install my games on the other. However, despite the second (D) drive being empty, it shows only 148GB out of 149GB being free. Why is this?
Should I try formatting it?
160,000,000 / 1024 (KB) / 1024 (MB) / 1024 (GB) = 149.011612 GB which is what you get.
hello,
I understand why it is meant to be 149 when empty, but it's 148... :S
The drive have a tiny bit of space reserved to MFT, filesystem which eat up about 1GB of spaceQuote:
Originally Posted by AD-15
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156560
This page tells you there are a bit more overhead on NTFS than FAT32 (assume 100000 files). Even assume FAT32 takes no space you still lose about 500M~1GB easily.
In short, some space is reserved for putting information about the file which is not counted towards the filesize.
hello,
OK, thanks for your help man!