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EyeDrives - keeping track of your drive space.
EyeDrives is a freeware utility with which you can determine exactly how much space your various drives have remaining. The amounts can be viewed in Bytes, K-Bytes, M-Bytes or G-Bytes. If you have multiple partitions, the totals for free space, used space and drive size are given. CD-ROM figures are not included in totals. In addition, by clicking on a drive button, a number of extra details are calculated such as wasted space, cluster sizes etc.
The program can read multiple drives (24 in this version, C to Z) and the form will automatically resize depending on the drive count. It is also possible to pick which drives to view. When closing the program, it will remember if you were in Byte, KB, MB or GB view and the screen position and load next time accordingly.
EyeDrives is designed to work with Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2K and XP and is released as freeware with the author retaining full copyright). If you would like to download EyeDrives, please go to the Downloads page.
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What's new with EyeDrives version 4.0 (February 2006)
- Added : Now shows the drive volume name or type for empty removable drives.
- Added : Help file now in both HTML or WinHelp format - you choose.
- Added : To aid stability, the calculating of a drive's wasted space has been hived off to its own thread.
- Modified : The interface, color schemes and layout have been updated.
- Modified : The code was tweaked in many places and rewritten in some to improve stability.
- Modified : The LED colors for fixed drives are now dependant on used percentages instead of actual remaining space (more appropriate with today's large disks).
- Fixed : Can now handle card readers or other vacant media without asking for disk.
- Fixed : Divide by zero error that would occasionally occur.
Finding your wasted space...
Other than just showing how much space you have left on any of you drives or partitions (they both mean the same thing), EyeDrives can also find out how much of the used space is actualy slack or wasted space. Wasted space is the difference between the total size of your files and the space that Windows allocates for them on your hard disk.
Windows stores files in little blocks called clusters that vary in size depending on the size of the partition. If a file fills, for example, three and one half clusters, the rest of that half cluster is wasted space. Think of a pile of boxes in a warehouse, the empty space inside the boxes surrounding their contents is wasted. A half empty big box has more wasted space than a half empty small one.