Re: 'Used' space on a new partition?
- From: Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:36:17 +0000
"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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.
Yes, thanks, I suspect that might have been the cause. I've moved on
in various ways since then (including laboriously enlarging the 12GB
partition to about 12.5GB to be on the sure side), so it's not
possible to be definitive now. But one step I did take was to ensure
recycling was not applied to that partition. Presumably space of 122MB
had been 'reserved' by Norton? But why then was the folder being shown
by WinXP as a mere 35 bytes?
--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
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