ScanDisk and Backup Report Different Amounts of Free Space
Article ID: 181670
Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q181670
SYMPTOMS
The ScanDisk and Backup tools in Windows 98 may report different amounts
of used and free space on a hard disk.
CAUSE
ScanDisk determines free space by multiplying the available clusters by
the cluster size. Backup reads the directory entries and adds the file
sizes together to determine the amount of space necessary for storing the
backup. Because these two methods do not yield the same result, ScanDisk
and Backup report different amounts of used and free space.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
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