I have a floppy disk that did have Windows 95 start up on it. I deleted all the icons when i opened the disk. It says there are no items to show in this folder. (0 object(s), 0 hidden object(s))But the pie graph still shows 218 kb of used space. while still having 1.17mb of free space. why is it not all free and is it safe to reuse disks like this or is there something harmful hidded?
2006-08-22 18:57:22 · 7 answers · asked by BCBGirl 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
You said you deleted the icons.
Thats not the right way to do it.
You should have formated the disk.
Insert your disk again.
Right click on your disk drive.
and click format.
Use the 'Standard' format.
And you will see that you can use the disk space more effectively.
2006-08-22 19:01:59 · answer #1 · answered by Ω Nookey™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You cannot use all 100% of bytes space in any storage media because operation system needs to use some space to store the file system information like how many good usable sectors, which files, and its path.
So it is very safe to use the formatted floppy disks as when you format OS would completly erase the previous content and make it look like a new floppy.
2006-08-22 19:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by brsanthu 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The formatting may take up several KBs of space regardless of whether or not you have anything stored on the floppy or any type of storage media.
2006-08-22 19:04:32 · answer #3 · answered by derpiao 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A small portion of the disk is used by format information and other necessary disk data.
2006-08-22 19:00:15 · answer #4 · answered by cman 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you highliight the floppy drive then press right click select format this will delete every thing on the disk it will be empty
2006-08-22 20:33:38 · answer #5 · answered by funky boy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
interior the disk cleanup homestead windows interior the 2nd tab (extra ideas) there are 3 buttons with freshen up elect the backside one from the area the place it states to delete all however the final restoration element. clicking on it you will erase all of momentary archives, momentary information superhighway archives and likewise different restoration factors that has been created previously the final one.
2016-12-17 15:41:08 · answer #6 · answered by cordell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no matter how much time you erase something there will still be something there including Floppy disk and blank cd if you want to erase things that are transforable you may want buy flash drive. (little portable usb memory drives) buy at best buy or office depot
2006-08-22 19:05:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋