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brazim02 - Jan 8, 2006 - 6:49 am

Hi, I recently bought an IDE hard drive and am using it in a USB caddy. When I am downloading or saving things to it, the disk space seems to be filling up very quickly. I have around 2 GB of info stored and downloaded to this drive but it is only showing 140gb of space remaining on a 160gb drive. I know that the real available space on this drve to start with was around 150gb but where has the other 8gb gone. I have seen some .ds files and a "trashes" file but it can't seem to look at the size of them and don't know how to get rid of them, can you help?

Thanks,

Mark.

destructospin - Jan 8, 2006 - 8:07 am

Formatting a disk takes up some space, and that's very common. On my 200gb disk, it shows up as an 192gb disk, with 185gb of available space.

brazim02 - Jan 8, 2006 - 8:45 am

OK, thanks for the info,

Mark.