CD-ROM Always Shows 127 MB Used and Zero Bytes Free
Article ID: 111757
Article Last Modified on 7/7/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 3.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows 3.0a
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows 3.11 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1
- Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- Microsoft MS-DOS 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 4.01 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q111757
SUMMARY
When you view disk information for a CD-ROM in File Manager, free disk
space is always reported as zero (0) bytes, and total disk space in use is
always reported as approximately 127 megabytes.
Microsoft Mulitmedia CD-ROM Extensions (MSCDEX.EXE) is coded to report a
specific number for both free space and bytes in use. Microsoft has
confirmed this to be a limitation of MSCDEX.EXE (all versions).
Microsoft Windows NT uses a different file system for addressing CD-ROM
drives and does not have this limitation.
Additional query words: wfw wfwg MSDOS DOSSHELL DOS SHELL FILE 131070 134215 130048 kbmm mmtitles 4.0 4.00 4.00a 4.01 5.00 5.00a 5.0 5.0a 6.00 6.20 win30 win31
Keywords: KB111757