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A friend of mine has just had his faulty hard drive changed under
warranty. The original was 850Mb and contained 600Mb of data, which he
backed-up onto tape. The new one is 1Gb. 

With the 600Mb of data restored, the 1Gb disk reports 150Mb free -
i.e. apparently 850 Mb used by only 600Mb of data. The only difference
between the setups is that his 850Mb disk had Win3.11 installed,
whereas during the upheaval he took the opportunity to change to Win95
with the 1Gb disk.

Any idea what may be going on here? He's checked for temporary files,
swapfile size...i.e. all of the obvious things. I don't know the size
of his clusters (oo-err! fnarr, fnarr!) but you'd need a hell of a lot
of small files to spirit 250Mb away like that. Win95 will be taking up
more room than Win3.11, and of course 1Gb is the unformatted capacity,
but both of these things together should account for a few tens of
megabytes, not hundreds.




Jim Fitzpatrick
jim@jfitz.demon.co.uk