Dilbert1234567

shakes head in shame

FORMAT IS THE LAST OPTION

and win 98 does not suport ntsf
never ever recomend formatation as an option, it is the last resport and should never be done lightly. if you dont know what your doing Dont give advice please. sorry to flame you for this but telling some one who is asking the community for advice just to format is just wrong.




now that that is out of the way befor you format, you must realise that on any hard drive you well never get the full size for several reasons,

1. the hard drive makers measure size with kb being 1000 bytes instead od 1024, same with mb and gb a difrence of about 9%

2. next the drive is writen to in clusters, a cluster is a group of bytes, usual like 128 bytes basicly what this means is when you write a file to the hard drive it splits it up into 128 byte chunks. and the last chunk to be writen takes up a portion of the last cluster and the rest of the space is wasted. so if you have a lot of small files you will have lots of wasted space. (this is where ziping is helpful)



now a question for you, how large is the hard drive labeled to be, and how large does it desplay