How do I determine how much space my floppy disk has?
Question
How do I determine how much space my floppy disk has?
Answer
Windows 95, 98, NT 4.x, 2000, ME, and XP users
MS-DOS users and Windows 3.x and NT 3.x users
Linux and Unix users
Windows 95, 98, NT 4.x, 2000, ME, and XP users
- From the Windows desktop open My Computer
- Within My Computer highlight and right-click the 3 1/2 Floppy (A:) Drive.
- From the menu that appears after right-clicking the drive click Properties.
- The Properties window will display the used space, free space, and the total capacity of the drive, similar to what is shown below.
In addition to the steps listed above you can also still view the available space through MS-DOS.
MS-DOS users and Windows 3.x and NT 3.x users
To determine the available space on a hard drive using MS-DOS we recommend that the 'dir' command be used.
At the MS-DOS prompt type:
dir <press enter>
At the end of the directory listing you will see information similar to the below example.
2 file (s) 578 bytes
15 dir (s) 16,754.78 MB free
As you can see above the hard drive has over 16GB of free space. If you wish to see all files and how much space they are occupying type the below commands.
cd\
dir /s
The above command will list all files on your computer (except the hidden files) and give you the total amount of disk space they utilize as well as the free disk space.
- See the dir command and cd command pages for further information about each of these commands.