Rhymer Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 uTorrent 1.8.1, Windows XP. Files being downloaded to a large storage device mounted as a folder. uTorrent apparently does not see the actual space on the device but is using the reported (incorrectly, by Windows) disk space of the parent device.Is there a way to have uTorrent ignore this incorrect disk space report? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Did you do a Scandisk or chkdsk on the drive so windows would correct its free space estimate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhymer Posted December 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 No, I tried that and it doesn't correct this file size listing. Checking on Microsoft web site, apparently this is a problem with the operating system they have known about since at least NT 4.0 (6,7,8,9 years?). Windows shows there is 908 kbytes free space. Actual space available on mounted volume is over 900 gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 "Mounted as folder"?? How... Are you talking about junctions. What 'large storage device' are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 "Mounted as folder"?? How...Using disk management. NTFS partitions allow drives to be directly mounted as folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhymer Posted December 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 More on bug at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177127 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 You will need to reconfigure the external storage as some other form of virtual device in windows so the free space isn't horribly wrong. ...Or free up some space on the parent device so it appears to have enough free space for whatever operation you're attempting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhymer Posted December 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Well, that IS "Bad News". Darn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Yep, that's just exactly what I meant by my title too...I often reply to messages here that others can't answer and inform them there's probably little hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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