Winmsd.exe May Show Invalid Drive Statistics in Reports
Article ID: 167001
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q167001
SYMPTOMS
The Windows NT Diagnostics utility, Winmsd.exe, may show invalid drive
statistics in a saved or printed report. This can occur for drives where
the product of bytes per sector multiplied by sectors per cluster is
smaller than 1,024.
CAUSE
When generating a report, the Winmsd.exe diagnostic utility shows drive
statistics in kilobytes and not in bytes, as it does on the Drives tab.
When calculating the total and free disk space of a drive, it uses the
following formula:
((bytes per sector * sectors per cluster) / 1024)
If the product of bytes per sector and sectors per cluster is smaller than
1,024, the result equals 0, and the drives report will show 0 KB as both
total and free disk space. This may happen with small NTFS partitions where
bytes per sector equals 512 and sectors per cluster equals 1. However, the
Drives tab does display the correct statistics.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We
are researching this problem and will post new information here in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
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