[RESOLVED] Help in understanding drive space etc. please? - HTML Forums

haukke45 · 08-06-2008, 06:44 AM

Here is my delimma:
os=winME format= fat32 (no I cannot afford a better comp

)
I have a samsung hdd drive that is 38 gig (40,803,794,944 kb)
32,485,408,268 kb used, 8,318,386,176 free
when I did a standard scandisk it says this:
39,847,456 kb in all
34,799,616 b in ea. sector
242,122,752 in 7,233 folders
917,504 b in hidden
31,452,704 kb in 326,300 in user
8,123,424 kb avail on disk
32,768b ea. allicute unit
1,245,233b total allicute unit
253,857 avail allicute unit
I tried to do a thorough scandisk test:
1,245,233 clusters on drive
but my comp (or the drive) stalles at: 1,031,777 clusters and won't go any father
plus when trying to transfer files to another drive some files I try to get (or choose to transfer) makes my comp stall.

My Question is This:
I am wondering how much data in (mb or gig) have I lost on this drive? i'm having mathematical problems calculating clusters into mb, or gig "LOL" I'm just not that good in math sorry. Can someone please help in telling me how much mb or gig have I lost on this drive.
And thank you in advance.

Horus_Kol · 08-06-2008, 07:30 AM

well, a cluster is not a fixed value in MB, I'm afraid...

but looking at the number of clusters you written down, you're missing 200,000 clusters - which is about 16% of the total... which is about 6 GB of data...

considering you're running WinME, I'd say that this is a pretty old PC (like 5 years+) - so its not surprising that the HDD has given up.

There may be a disk recovery utility - but you really do need to replace the drive, even if you do manage to recover your lost data

haukke45 · 08-06-2008, 07:53 AM

"OH Thank You Very Much!!!" it's been bugging me for some time now
and yes I bought a (wd)170 gig hard drive and I have been transfering files from my other 3 40gig hdds this last samsung 38 gig drive is the last one I have to transfer. I still have a long way to go since every so often my comp stalls trying to access the files on it lol. I gotten so far 1.14 GB of the 32 gigs files omg lol wish me luck and you can cancell this message if you want and thank you thank you very very much
my mind can rest a little bit easeir just knowing that info now