Here’s Windows Explorer’s view on my C: drive, by right-clicking on the drive and clicking on Properties:Īs you can see, Explorer reports that about 47.8 gigabytes are in use, and that 24.6 gigabytes is available as free space. Actually it is, but there are different ways of looking at “what’s used” that don’t tell the whole story.įirst let’s look at the two examples mentioned in the question. Fortunately it’s not something we need look at very often, but you’d think the line between what’s used and what’s not used would be clear.
Just with a little poking around I was able to generate several different numbers for the “spaced used” on my hard drive.
