How can MY Documents have more GB than my computer?

Question

I bought a USB Flash Drive to back up my computer. My computer is 1 GB so I bought a 1GB flash drive. I was transferring "MY Documents" folder to the flash drive and the folder is 1.84 GB. How can that be? If only one folder is that much and there's so much more on the computer besides that folder, how can it all fit on a 1GB computer? I'm confused.

Answer 1

It could be 1GB RAM. To check how much disk space you have go to my computer and click local disk (c) and look in the left pannel. If it is 1GB disk space then your my documents folder must be compressed in some way.

Answer 2

Is it possible that your computer has 2 hard drives? This was the case with my bro where his primary hard drive contained all the installation data and the larger hard drive contained the "my documents folder" meaning he could store much more in that folder than on the smaller drive.

Answer 3

I think you need to recheck your system. Right-click your C: Drive and select Properties to see how much room you have total. If you have a modern PC, there is no way that the hard drive is only 1GB. And remember that memory is not the same as space.

Answer 4

He's right, it must be your RAM, and not your hard-drive. Windows XP itself occupies round 1GB and a half (I don't remember about the older versions, but it has to be in the order of hundreds of MB). So your computer wouldn't even probably work if you had that much drive space. Enter My Computer and right-click your drive(s) then properties to see exactly how much space you have got.

Answer 5

i think you must have seen the amount of RAM your system has.. to check on the total Hard Disk size you would need to goto RUN and then type the following command
diskmgmt.msc
Press OK
it would open a new window which would have DISK 0 listed and underneath that it would show you the total Hard Disk Space..

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

not possible