NTFS Question - Windows 2000

[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

 

[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
>

 

[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?!

 

[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?!
>

 

[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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[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