
How Much Free Space?
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                 DETERMINE YOUR FREE STORAGE SPACE


   Keeping tabs on the available disk space on all your drives can be 
tough, especially if you have a lot of drives. But when you're trying to 
install a new program, you've got to know where there's room to put it. 
One method of determining available drive space is to run CHKDSK on each 
drive. Unfortunately this process is time-consuming because the entire 
disk is checked to ensure its integrity. It also requires a lot of 
typing. If you have NDOS, you can reduce the amount of time required by 
CHKDSK by running FREESPC on each drive, but this still requires a lot 
of typing.

   FREESPC (a really handy utility!) provides a quick and easy way to 
determine the amount of free space available on each drive. Just type 
FREESPC and press ENTER. FREESPC shows you the size of each drive, its 
available free space, and the percentage of free space. The capacity and 
free space are indicated in numbers of bytes.

   Do note that although FREESPC does not check floppy drives (drives A 
and B) and network drives, it does check all other local drives -- 
including removable media such as SyQuest and Bernoulli drives, and CD-
ROM drives. Although checking CD-ROM drives is somewhat useless since 
you can't directly write to a CD, we found it easier to simply include 
CD-ROM drives. This is because DOS treats a CD-ROM drive just like any 
other type of removable media. Error checking is also built-in, so you 
won't see the dreaded "Retry, Abort, Fail" message if you don't have a 
disk in a removable-media drive. In such a case, FREESPC traps the error 
and bypasses that drive with no further ado.

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