Microsoft KB Archive/181670

= ScanDisk and Backup Report Different Amounts of Free Space =

Article ID: 181670

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

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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.

Keywords: kbprb KB181670

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