I never knew that, but it makes sense. Thanks for the help. I do have more
questions but I will start a new thread for those.
Thanks again

"John John" wrote:

> Along with what Ken said, keep in mind that what drive manufacturers
> label as 40 GB drives are labeled as less by Windows. Drive
> manufacturers use their own math to determine drive size, they use 1,000
> bytes = 1 kb whereas the correct value is 1,024 bytes = 1kb. Therefore,
> a 40 GB drive is more like 37.25GB
>
> Also, slack space will account for some lost space as will the Master
> File Table. The file system used has a great impact on slack space.
>
> John
>
>
> Route514 wrote:
> > I am a very new user to start with so bear with me. Here is my situation.
> > When I am viewing C: drives properties it says that I have used 32 GB of
> > space, but then when I explore C: drive and add up the folders that are in
> > it, the amount only reaches 28 GB. So there appears to be a difference
> > between my count and what it says. Why is there that difference? And where
> > are those other files that are taking up the invisible 4 GB of space. This is
> > kinda a big issue considering my hard drive is only 40 GB big and C: drives
> > capacity is around 34 GB. Thanks for any help!
>