Re: 'Used' space on a new partition?

Terry Pinnell 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.

Are you by any chance using the "Norton Protected Recycle Bin"? If so,
disable the service and restart the machine.

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