where is the missing space (C: drive)

Hi,
We have been runing SBS2000 for a number of years. The C
drive is only 4 Gb. All programs (Exchange, SQLServer
etc) are installed on the D drive. The only thing on the
C drive is the OS. We have about 980Mb of free space on
C. Whenever I run a security update, I move the unistall
files from C to D. To do this I use "Ctrl-X", "Ctrl-V"
(to move the files) After doing this the last time I
noticed I didn't gain any free space (although I moved a
number of files from C to D). So, I did a "Ctrl-C", "Ctrl-
V" on the D drive files to a new folder on the D drive. I
then deleted the old files. After finishing, I looked at
my free space on C and it agained 50Mb. BUT THAT IS AFTER
MOVING FILES ONLY ON THE D DRIVE!?!? When you use Ctrl-X
to move files between drives, is it just a pointer and the
space is still stored on the original drive? If so, that
is bad.

I then summed up all the space for each folder on C and it
only comes to about 1.5Gb, viewing the properties on C, it
shows used space as 3.2Gb. Where is the remainder of
space?

This isn't a huge issue (we have been around 1Gb free
space for a long time) but I'm curious how the OS
calculates free space.

Bill
Thu Apr 29 17:42:08 CDT 2004

Hi nic...

How is the drive formatted ?...Doh...its SBS has to be NTFS.

Page file ? Have you set system to show hidden and system files ?

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"nic" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> We have been runing SBS2000 for a number of years. The C
> drive is only 4 Gb. All programs (Exchange, SQLServer
> etc) are installed on the D drive. The only thing on the
> C drive is the OS. We have about 980Mb of free space on
> C. Whenever I run a security update, I move the unistall
> files from C to D. To do this I use "Ctrl-X", "Ctrl-V"
> (to move the files) After doing this the last time I
> noticed I didn't gain any free space (although I moved a
> number of files from C to D). So, I did a "Ctrl-C", "Ctrl-
> V" on the D drive files to a new folder on the D drive. I
> then deleted the old files. After finishing, I looked at
> my free space on C and it agained 50Mb. BUT THAT IS AFTER
> MOVING FILES ONLY ON THE D DRIVE!?!? When you use Ctrl-X
> to move files between drives, is it just a pointer and the
> space is still stored on the original drive? If so, that
> is bad.
>
> I then summed up all the space for each folder on C and it
> only comes to about 1.5Gb, viewing the properties on C, it
> shows used space as 3.2Gb. Where is the remainder of
> space?
>
> This isn't a huge issue (we have been around 1Gb free
> space for a long time) but I'm curious how the OS
> calculates free space.

nic
Thu Apr 29 18:57:11 CDT 2004

You are correct, I wasn't seeing hidden files. Page.sys
is over a gig (is that ok?) That explains the missing
space, but how come when I modified files only on the D
drive, it changed allowable space on the C drive?

Just curious.....

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi nic...
>
>How is the drive formatted ?...Doh...its SBS has to be
NTFS.
>
>Page file ? Have you set system to show hidden and system
files ?
>
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>"nic" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:616601c42e10$912b6070$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> We have been runing SBS2000 for a number of years. The
C
>> drive is only 4 Gb. All programs (Exchange, SQLServer
>> etc) are installed on the D drive. The only thing on
the
>> C drive is the OS. We have about 980Mb of free space on
>> C. Whenever I run a security update, I move the
unistall
>> files from C to D. To do this I use "Ctrl-X", "Ctrl-V"
>> (to move the files) After doing this the last time I
>> noticed I didn't gain any free space (although I moved a
>> number of files from C to D). So, I did a "Ctrl-
C", "Ctrl-
>> V" on the D drive files to a new folder on the D
drive. I
>> then deleted the old files. After finishing, I looked
at
>> my free space on C and it agained 50Mb. BUT THAT IS
AFTER
>> MOVING FILES ONLY ON THE D DRIVE!?!? When you use Ctrl-
X
>> to move files between drives, is it just a pointer and
the
>> space is still stored on the original drive? If so,
that
>> is bad.
>>
>> I then summed up all the space for each folder on C and
it
>> only comes to about 1.5Gb, viewing the properties on C,
it
>> shows used space as 3.2Gb. Where is the remainder of
>> space?
>>
>> This isn't a huge issue (we have been around 1Gb free
>> space for a long time) but I'm curious how the OS
>> calculates free space.
>
>
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>