NTFS Question - Windows 2000

[Guest Ryan]

Hello,

 

I recently bought a two new 500GB drives and have them hooked up to a

Rosewill RAID card (RC-209) in RAID1. Windows 2000 sees a single

500GB drive and all is good. I created a new partition format the

drive with 512 cluster size, and when finished I have working disk

that show 180MB of used space in 3 files. I only know there are three

files because of disk defrag. The same method shows the MFT is only

about 27KB. So a few questions:

 

1) What are the three files (is MFT one of these?)

2) Which is taking up 180MB?

3) Since I thought OS files were not included in used-space

calculations, why am I showing used space.

4) Is there a way to view the files?

 

Thanks!

Ryan

[Guest DL]

Re: NTFS Question - Windows 2000

 

Assuming the raid drive is your o/s, C drive, the win installation & page

file will be included in used space

What does explorer show?

 

"Ryan" <ryan.d.rembaum@kp.org> wrote in message

news:1187933164.374547.34000@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com...

> Hello,

>

> I recently bought a two new 500GB drives and have them hooked up to a

> Rosewill RAID card (RC-209) in RAID1. Windows 2000 sees a single

> 500GB drive and all is good. I created a new partition format the

> drive with 512 cluster size, and when finished I have working disk

> that show 180MB of used space in 3 files. I only know there are three

> files because of disk defrag. The same method shows the MFT is only

> about 27KB. So a few questions:

>

> 1) What are the three files (is MFT one of these?)

> 2) Which is taking up 180MB?

> 3) Since I thought OS files were not included in used-space

> calculations, why am I showing used space.

> 4) Is there a way to view the files?

>

> Thanks!

> Ryan

>

[Guest Ryan]

Re: NTFS Question - Windows 2000

 

On Aug 24, 4:44 am, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:

> Assuming the raid drive is your o/s, C drive, the win installation & page

> file will be included in used space

> What does explorer show?

>

> "Ryan" <ryan.d.remb...@kp.org> wrote in message

>

> news:1187933164.374547.34000@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com...

>

>

>

> > Hello,

>

> > I recently bought a two new 500GB drives and have them hooked up to a

> > Rosewill RAID card (RC-209) in RAID1. Windows 2000 sees a single

> > 500GB drive and all is good. I created a new partition format the

> > drive with 512 cluster size, and when finished I have working disk

> > that show 180MB of used space in 3 files. I only know there are three

> > files because of disk defrag. The same method shows the MFT is only

> > about 27KB. So a few questions:

>

> > 1) What are the three files (is MFT one of these?)

> > 2) Which is taking up 180MB?

> > 3) Since I thought OS files were not included in used-space

> > calculations, why am I showing used space.

> > 4) Is there a way to view the files?

>

> > Thanks!

> > Ryan- Hide quoted text -

>

> - Show quoted text -

 

Hi DL,

 

The drive does not contain the OS, and nothing is displayed in

explorer although I have selected to display system and hidden files.

I even tried a directory scan using the /ah and /as attribute. No

files or directories show, but the system information windows on the

left shows 180megs of disk used. I even tried a slow format. What

file would be so big on a newly formatted drive and why is there no

trace?!

[Guest Meinolf Weber (Myweb)]

Re: NTFS Question - Windows 2000

 

Hello Ryan,

 

If you convert a disk to NTFS it will loose some space depending on the size

of the harddisk for the NTFS functionality.

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber (Myweb)

Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers

no rights.

> On Aug 24, 4:44 am, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:

>

>> Assuming the raid drive is your o/s, C drive, the win installation &

>> page

>> file will be included in used space

>> What does explorer show?

>> "Ryan" <ryan.d.remb...@kp.org> wrote in message

>>

>> news:1187933164.374547.34000@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com...

>>

>>> Hello,

>>>

>>> I recently bought a two new 500GB drives and have them hooked up to

>>> a Rosewill RAID card (RC-209) in RAID1. Windows 2000 sees a single

>>> 500GB drive and all is good. I created a new partition format the

>>> drive with 512 cluster size, and when finished I have working disk

>>> that show 180MB of used space in 3 files. I only know there are

>>> three files because of disk defrag. The same method shows the MFT

>>> is only about 27KB. So a few questions:

>>>

>>> 1) What are the three files (is MFT one of these?)

>>> 2) Which is taking up 180MB?

>>> 3) Since I thought OS files were not included in used-space

>>> calculations, why am I showing used space.

>>> 4) Is there a way to view the files?

>>> Thanks!

>>> Ryan- Hide quoted text -

>> - Show quoted text -

>>

> Hi DL,

>

> The drive does not contain the OS, and nothing is displayed in

> explorer although I have selected to display system and hidden files.

> I even tried a directory scan using the /ah and /as attribute. No

> files or directories show, but the system information windows on the

> left shows 180megs of disk used. I even tried a slow format. What

> file would be so big on a newly formatted drive and why is there no

> trace?!

>

[Guest Andrew Rossmann]

Re: NTFS Question - Windows 2000

 

In article <1187933164.374547.34000@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,

ryan.d.rembaum@kp.org says...

> Hello,

>

> I recently bought a two new 500GB drives and have them hooked up to a

> Rosewill RAID card (RC-209) in RAID1. Windows 2000 sees a single

> 500GB drive and all is good. I created a new partition format the

> drive with 512 cluster size, and when finished I have working disk

> that show 180MB of used space in 3 files. I only know there are three

> files because of disk defrag. The same method shows the MFT is only

> about 27KB. So a few questions:

>

> 1) What are the three files (is MFT one of these?)

> 2) Which is taking up 180MB?

> 3) Since I thought OS files were not included in used-space

> calculations, why am I showing used space.

> 4) Is there a way to view the files?

 

A few articles on NTFS:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174619

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315688

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/NtfsInfo.mspx

 

 

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[Guest Meinolf Weber (Myweb)]

Re: NTFS Question - Windows 2000

 

Hello Andrew,

 

Nice articles, I also searched for it to get more detailed infos, but did

not found anything. Now i have :-))

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber (Myweb)

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no rights.

> In article <1187933164.374547.34000@q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,

> ryan.d.rembaum@kp.org says...

>

>> Hello,

>>

>> I recently bought a two new 500GB drives and have them hooked up to a

>> Rosewill RAID card (RC-209) in RAID1. Windows 2000 sees a single

>> 500GB drive and all is good. I created a new partition format the

>> drive with 512 cluster size, and when finished I have working disk

>> that show 180MB of used space in 3 files. I only know there are

>> three files because of disk defrag. The same method shows the MFT is

>> only about 27KB. So a few questions:

>>

>> 1) What are the three files (is MFT one of these?)

>> 2) Which is taking up 180MB?

>> 3) Since I thought OS files were not included in used-space

>> calculations, why am I showing used space.

>> 4) Is there a way to view the files?

> A few articles on NTFS:

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174619

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315688

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/NtfsInfo.msp

> x