Incorrect files sizes?

[Wing Nut]

Ok, this is kind of odd.

[Gixer]

Dunno why?  Maybe the same reason that you buy a 40gig HDD but it comes up as only being 38gig!

[Skittles]

By doing a little math and checking scale...

28,124,585 KB

[Skittles]

[quote]Dunno why?

[Iroquois]

That's a big movie. Is it an AVI movie? I'm doing the same and I noticed one five minute video was 1gb. Use Windows Movie Maker or Nero Burning Rom (if you have it) to capture. That way you can store it as a WMV or MPEG-2 file which are much smaller but have equal quality. Windows MM is the best for capture.

That's due to the File Allocation Table that is written when formatted.

Also it doesn't show the OS partition. My main disk is 40gb but only registers as 31gb due to the OS partition and NTFS table taking up that space.

[Skittles]

Also it doesn't show the OS partition. My main disk is 40gb but only registers as 31gb due to the OS partition and NTFS table taking up that space.

Well, if you partition your drive you are effecftively making it two drives so yeah, the sizes will be different.

If you're meaning the partition on which the OS is on, then it's just the table taking up space. I don't know the ratios of how much space the FAT, FAT 32 and NTFS take.