[X4U] Bigger drive, less space?

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Bill White wrote:

> Here's the odd thing, though: my old machine had an 80 gig drive  
> and I had
> roughly 11-12 gigs of free space. The new machine has a 100 gig  
> drive, and
> when I restored all of my stuff on to it from a backup, I expected  
> to have
> roughly 30 gigs of free space...but...I have 9.5! That's *less*  
> free space
> than I had on the older, smaller drive. Hmmm.
>
> I've run WhatSize and looked for some obvious clues, but nothing is  
> standing
> out. Any thoughts?

You sure it's a 100 GB and not a 60? Check the drive and see what the  
Info window shows...


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