Windows 10: chkdsk and dir commands report different free space

Hello,



I would like to know why is there different free space reported by chkdsk and dir commands.


I created a compressed NTFS drive and have one folder with files in it. There are no errors on drive at least as reported by chkdsk:

x:\>chkdsk x:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

Volume label is xxx.



WARNING! /F parameter not specified.

Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.



Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

139264 file records processed.

File verification completed.

6971 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.



Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

4 reparse records processed.

193310 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.

0 unindexed files scanned.

0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

4 reparse records processed.



Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...

Security descriptor verification completed.

27023 data files processed.



Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.

No further action is required.



1953497087 KB total disk space.

1712834324 KB in 105051 files.

25868 KB in 27025 indexes.

0 KB in bad sectors.

265143 KB in use by the system.

65536 KB occupied by the log file.

240371752 KB available on disk.



4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

488374271 total allocation units on disk.

60092938 allocation units available on disk.



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x:\>dir

Volume in drive x is xxx

Volume Serial Number is xxxx



Directory of x:\



20/01/2021 01:21 <DIR> xxxxx

0 Files 0 bytes

1 Dirs 82.100.224 bytes free


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The difference here is 240371752 KB available on disk reported by chkdsk vs 80176KB reported by dir and file explorer.

:)

 

"chkdsk" command on "cmd" showing lots of errors

You can run chkdsk /f at the Command Prompt while in Repair Mode. It works like so:

1. Tap F8 at boot time to get into Repair Mode.
2. Open a Command Prompt.
3. Find the System partition like so:
   
   dir C:\Win* {Enter}
   
   dir D:\Win* {Enter}
   
   dir E:\Win* {Enter}
   
   dir F:\Win* {Enter}
   
   until you get a positive response. I shall call this letter Q:.
4. Run chkdsk Q: /F

 

dir Difficulties

I am getting the hang of this command set.

Maybe somebody know a work around that will list the three time stamps at one time.
Theoretically dir /TC /TA /TW.
dir will only show one of the three at one time.

To me it seems that the only way to get all three on a line is to run loop with output to file, then boiling down the three outputs to one line. Clumsy but maybe the only way to get the job done?

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Dir command gives unexpected / unwanted results

Or you can try :
dir *.xls | findstr /E ".xls"

as shown here:

How to list only .doc or .xls files with the Windows dir command in the cmd window? - Stack Overflow

(from the above page: Microsoft is treating the string as a regex.)