Windows 2000 is showing wrong Disk Usage (W2K)

[rohithdv]

I have 2 O.S on my computer-win2k,win98.
In win98,drive E shows 845MB free. while in Win 2k, it shows 355 KB free ! As a result i cannot copy any files in E even though it shows enough disk space. please help me !

[Andy-S]

The only thing I can think of is that you have the W2K swapfile on the E:. As the file is dynamic you won't see the same space being consumed when in Windows 98. Looks like you need to do some cleanup on the W2K partition.

Cheers
Andy

[rohithdv]

Thanks for your suggestion. But that was not the problem.
actually i had installed Norton Utilities before . and I had deleted some 600MB of space after that. What had happened was that in Win98 , the deleted space was shown as free . But Norton Utilities had actually turned the Norton Protection on for my E: drive . So , it was still protecting the files i had deleted ! in fact Norton Utilities maintains a NProtect folder in Recycled Bin which cannot be seen even if hidden files are enabled to be viewed.
But in Win2k , it was treatuing the Norton Nprotect folder as an ordinary folder that occupied 600MB and hence it was showing the rest of free space only !!
I deleted the Norton Protection files and disabled the Norton Protection on all my drives and voila !!!
I got my free space back !! Simple isn't it ??
thanks again for your advice !

[Andy-S]

Glad you got it fixed and thanks for the tip on Norton. I'll keep it in mind for the future.

Cheers
Andy