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Descrepency in HDD Space

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by redshift Feb 16, 2001 last reply Feb 19, 2001

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I just added a WD 40 GB HDD to my PC, and ghosted the contents of the system's original 8GB HDD. I've set up the 40 as the master, and the 8 as the slave. When I boot into Win98 SE and check the HDD space of both devices, the 8 shows that 5.54 is is use, and the 40 has 6.41 in use. The system has 192 MB RAM. I have added nothing to the new HDD. I thought that it may be the swap file, but the swap file is less than 150 MB. Why else might there be a difference, is it the cluster size? Thanks!

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by syscokid Feb 17, 2001

Could be, if the 40 gig drive is FAT16 and the 8 is FAT32 because FAT32 does use smaller cluster sizes.

by redshift Feb 19, 2001

Right forest, wrong tree.

by dcassat Feb 17, 2001

It is the cluster size.

by redshift Feb 19, 2001

As I suspected. Maybe this would be a good topic for an article here on Techrepublic - Why, even in Fat32 do an 8 and a 40 gig HDD have different cluster sizes?