Ron Martell <ron.martell@gmail.com> wrote:

>Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>I made a new partition H on my third HD, large enough to contain a
>>copy of my XP OS from C. But when I came to use Drive Image to make
>>the copy, it said destination was too small. On inspection, I found
>>that although it was apparently EMPTY, it had a 'Used' figure of 122MB
>>- just enough to take it fractionally below the size of C.
>>
>>Why would a brand new partition have *any* used space? The only
>>content I can see is a RECYCLER folder, but that's '35 bytes', and I
>>can't seem to remove it anyway.
>
>
>Is this an NTFS partition?
>
>Try opening a DOS command window and entering
>
>CHKDSK H:
>
>Space used for the MFT on an NTFS drive will be reported as "nnnn KB
>in use by the system".
>
>Good luck
>
>Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

Thanks Ron. I'll remember that tip for future use. Meanwhile I made
various changes, including by-passing the problem by enlarging the
destination partition (tedious!) and generally getting in a fair old
mess. But I'll post separately under a new subject.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK