How to determine the available hard drive space?

HOw do I determine the available hard drive space?

This question was answered on April 13, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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To determine the available hard disk drive space will vary depending upon the Operating System that is currently being used Below is a listing of various operating systems and the methods of determining how much space is available in that Operating System.

MS-DOS

To determine the available space on a hard disk drive using MS-DOS the 'dir' command should be used.

At the MS-DOS prompt type:

dir <press enter>

At the end of the directory listing you will see something similar to:

2 file (s) 578 bytes

15 dir (s) 16,754.78 MB free

In the above example you will see that the hard disk drive has over 16GB of free space

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Posted by olivia of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on April 13, 2003

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