Quite some time ago I used a friend\'s computer. I can\'t remember exactly what
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Quite some time ago I used a friend's computer. I can't remember exactly what I was doing; but as part of whatever it was, I needed to use a USB flash drive. At a point in time soon after connecting the drive to his computer, and while viewing the drive properties through Windows Explorer, I noticed just over thirty megabytes of space became occupied without any user instruction. Within seconds, the drive again showed empty; however, the total amount of space available within that drive was then that same amount of megabytes short. What can be the cause of this strange behavior?
Explanation / Answer
This doesn't seem suspicious at all. As raz pointed out, Windows makes rapid estimates of space and then replaces that number with the real number after finishing calculations.
Also, all disks need to reserve space, but again, as raz mentioned, 32Mb is not unreasonable.
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