> This thread seems to be dealing with the "slack" space on a hard >drive There are at least two good utilities for MEASURING the ACTUAL slack on your drives. One is by MS. It is a Win98 marketing tool to talk you into upgrading to "recover" all this wasted space. (You do.) It gives a single figure of your savings. The Microsoft Site has it. It probably has moved since I was last there... ;-)) Search for: w98fat32.exe (It is a self extracting exe file.) If the above filename is incorrect, sorry... Sometimes I change the local names.... The other is a freeware that checks your drives, one at a time, in a DOS WINDOW and builds a chart for the WASTED space for seven different cluster sizes currently available. It lists: number of directories, counts ALL your files on the drive being tested. (Even the Very hidden ones.) sums all file sizes, lists size of drive. (In decimal and binary Megs.) The following is just "C", my Win95 boot drive. It informs me on my 2047.03m drive, I have 565m of files, in 32K clusters. (I have 310 dir, 4,751 files. This is a "clean system") Waste at 512K=1.94m Waste at 1,024=2.18m Waste at 2.048=5.84m Waste at 4.096=10.34m Waste at 8,192=22.10m Waste at 16,384=48.71m Waste at 32,768=101.44m (I am running a little less than 20%) The site URL is: http://www.walbeehm.com/files/WASTED.ZIP File size is 9.7K (If you blink, you "miss" the D/L) Note: This is WWW URL to a FILE. Please remember (or know) where your browser stores downloads. An unzipping program is needed. Rick Glazier _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]