hdd question ?

[aces170]

i have a 4 GB hdd.i have used up 2.1 GB but my windows is showing only 1.2 GB free.
how do i correct this ?

 

[AMV]

for one, what are you still doing worrying about a 4Gb, and second (and more pertinant) what operating system.... 98, 95, 3.1 maybe??

 

[djnes]

That doesn't sound too far off from what it should be. You don't get the full capacity of a drive when it's formatted.

Always remember: 1000 != 1024

 

[aces170]

i am using win XP and secondly i know 1000!=1024 but that does not mean i wil loose 600 mb and one more thing it'a actualy a 4.3 GB hdd windows showing as 4.00 GB already making up for 1mb=1024kb

 

[Snugglebear]

Aside from making sure there aren't any massive stashes of temp files or crud in your recycle bin, see how large your pagefile is. Windows has a nasty habit of not adding it into used space calculations in certain circumstances.

 

[Falls Included]

you loose about 10% of the drive to this..

 

[defakto]

If he's running xp, he's probably got the system recovery setup, if he'd disable that it might free up alot of space real quick.