Missing about 120gb

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HalfDemon1122

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a while back i screwed up windows, and since i bought my computer at best buy, i had them fix it (they dont give you vista recovery disks). before i broke it, i had about 300gb of space on my harddrive. now i have 195. I checked, and the drive is labeled for 320

i was wondering if there was a way of checking for a partition without formatting my harddrive. i have a ubuntu live cd (and no its not installed on my harddrive)


im running out of room for games :P
 
If they reinstalled Vista the missing drive space is most likely the hidden recovery partition. If you are familiar with GParted live that will show where the drive space is going since that will show hidden from view restore partitions as well as ones for logical drives. That still seems a little oversized for this while pointing out one reason.
 
I was at a friends place about 1 hour ago and he had a vista laptop and it had a 5gb recovery partition.

So maybe they did it but a big partition....
 
That's what it appears like. One place to look while waiting is taking a look at what is seen in the Disk Management tool. If there's a lot of unallocated drive space that will pointed out there in case the original recovery partition was left intact and someone simply goofed when going to create the new primary.

You can then decide whether to create a second storage partition or use GParted to expand the current primary to see that empty space filled in. You can't resize the primary while running the OS on it.
 
vk3fcll said:
I was at a friends place about 1 hour ago and he had a vista laptop and it had a 5gb recovery partition.

So maybe they did it but a big partition....
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No, it doesn't work that way. They didn't resize the recovery partition. If you view the hard drive in the disk management snap in you'll probably notice that a sizeable portion is not allocated. This could happen if they dropped an image onto the drive.

Just resize the main partition or delete the old one and create a new one the full size of the available space.
 
My pc is an hp and the recovery partition is under 10gb. I would assume the space on your pc is taken up by system recovery files. Get rid of old system recovery and your good.
 
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