How did you determine the space discrepancy ? Usually you can Right
Click the drive in Explorer and left click Properties. Explorer will show
both the Used Space and Free Space to equal the total volume size.
There is always be a difference between used space and size on disk.
Files & Folders use clusters to hold data and there is always cluster slack
space that is empty portions of a cluster used to hold a file. If you have
the standard 4-KByte clusters and a file of 2-KBytes then the cluster
that holds the file has a 50% slack space. The larger the Cluster size the
greater the Slack Space for each cluster. ( Unless the data is very large ).
"Manikandan S" <Manikandan
S@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am using XP Professioanl with SP3. My total disk space in c drive is not
> equal to the Total size - Free spave which was shown in my computer. There
> is
> a difference of 8 GB in this. I had 80GB HDD.