7gb = 21gb?

Grimulus · 12-27-2005, 11:02 PM

I just reformatted my 80gb seagate 7200.7.

I have 5gb of games, 75mb of Documents. roughly 2gb of Windows.

All the folders on my Windows drive is 7.23gb or something.

But out of the 74gb the drive allows, only 53gb are free.

The other 14gb?

Grim

[-0MEGA-] · 12-27-2005, 11:06 PM

well there are many hidden folders/files as well as files that are permenetly hidden, so when you check "show hidden files", they still dont show up.

All of my files say they take up 58.6GB, but my drive has 61.6GB used, so it depends on the computer. To free up disk space run Disk Cleanup and some 3rd pary clean-up utilities.

Xelogen · 12-29-2005, 02:05 AM

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Originally Posted by geoff5093

To free up disk space run Disk Cleanup and some 3rd pary clean-up utilities.

CCleaner has always worked wonders for me

ckfordy · 12-29-2005, 02:37 AM

heres another question my harddrive is 160 GB and it says 149 GB why is that. i have no partitions or anything.

[-0MEGA-] · 12-29-2005, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by AMD64

heres another question my harddrive is 160 GB and it says 149 GB why is that. i have no partitions or anything.

Its because of the way they define the term "gigabyte", technically a GB is 1,024 MB, but they call it 1,000MB. So there making it seem higher then it really is.

ckfordy · 12-29-2005, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by geoff5093

Its because of the way they define the term "gigabyte", technically a GB is 1,024 MB, but they call it 1,000MB. So there making it seem higher then it really is.

ok thanks

Grimulus · 12-27-2005, 11:08 PM

Disk Cleanup doesn't work all that well for me, any reccomendations? I'm glad you said something about the hidden stuff, i totally forgot about that...but I still don't understand how windows, a couple of programs and 3 games could take up that much space.

clkProject · 12-27-2005, 11:26 PM

Some of it gets flushed down the toilet after formatting and partitioning. Chill.

[-0MEGA-] · 12-27-2005, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by clkProject

Some of it gets flushed down the toilet after formatting and partitioning. Chill.

thats would contribute to him only having 74GB free on a 80GB disk.

Grimulus · 12-28-2005, 10:56 PM

dude, buy a brand new 80gb. there's 74gb there

it has nothing to do with reformatting.

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Grimulus Gold Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Age: 23 Posts: 456	7gb = 21gb? I just reformatted my 80gb seagate 7200.7. I have 5gb of games, 75mb of Documents. roughly 2gb of Windows. All the folders on my Windows drive is 7.23gb or something. But out of the 74gb the drive allows, only 53gb are free. The other 14gb? Grim __________________ XFX 680i LT E6600 @ 3.6ghz eVGA 8800GTS Crucial Ballistix PC6400 X-Fi Platinum Corsair HX620 560gb - 320WD + 2x120 Seagate Barracuda(sata) Stacker case Proc & NB are watercooled.

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12-27-2005, 11:08 PM	#7 (permalink)
Grimulus Gold Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Age: 23 Posts: 456	Disk Cleanup doesn't work all that well for me, any reccomendations? I'm glad you said something about the hidden stuff, i totally forgot about that...but I still don't understand how windows, a couple of programs and 3 games could take up that much space. __________________ XFX 680i LT E6600 @ 3.6ghz eVGA 8800GTS Crucial Ballistix PC6400 X-Fi Platinum Corsair HX620 560gb - 320WD + 2x120 Seagate Barracuda(sata) Stacker case Proc & NB are watercooled.

12-28-2005, 10:56 PM	#10 (permalink)
Grimulus Gold Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Age: 23 Posts: 456	dude, buy a brand new 80gb. there's 74gb there it has nothing to do with reformatting. __________________ XFX 680i LT E6600 @ 3.6ghz eVGA 8800GTS Crucial Ballistix PC6400 X-Fi Platinum Corsair HX620 560gb - 320WD + 2x120 Seagate Barracuda(sata) Stacker case Proc & NB are watercooled.

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12-29-2005, 02:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
ckfordy banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Madison, Minnesota Age: 19 Posts: 2,743	heres another question my harddrive is 160 GB and it says 149 GB why is that. i have no partitions or anything.

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