7gb = 21gb?

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Grimulus

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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
 
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.
 
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 said:
Some of it gets flushed down the toilet after formatting and partitioning. Chill.
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thats would contribute to him only having 74GB free on a 80GB disk.
 
you always lose some to the file allocation table, thats before you start putting files on it. then for every file you have on your system you tend to get a little bit of slack where a cluster is partially used. also, as stated, you get a lot of hidden and protected system files which only show up when you tick a particular checkbox in the folder options.
its something we all have to live with
 
Check your unzipped folder. I had 19GB in there at one point, couldnt figure out where all my HDD went, but there it was, unzipped files. They arnt picked up by the disk cleaner ect.
 
also you can turn the system restore off, or lower the memory it can use by goin g to start/control panel (classic view)/system/system restore
 
AMD64 said:
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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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.
 
geoff5093 said:
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.
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ok thanks
 
you always lose some to the file allocation table, thats before you start putting files on it. then for every file you have on your system you tend to get a little bit of slack where a cluster is partially used. also, as stated, you get a lot of hidden and protected system files which only show up when you tick a particular checkbox in the folder options.
its something we all have to live with
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god i hate that lol... freaking 10byte file takes up 4kb by default

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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HDD 101.
 
Well First, a new 80GB HDD will say it has 74GB because when Windows converts the true size of the drive, for some reason it rounds it off by 1024MB instead of 1000MB. If you right click the 74GB drive, it will say around 80,000,000,000 bytes.
This still doesn't explain why your 80GB has lost its space but I was clearing up any confusion.

As for the vanished space, try looking at your hidden files. Also, you can Download a trial of Ace Utilities and it has a disk analyser that shows which folders on your drive are taking what % of your drive space.
 
gamerman4 said:
Well First, a new 80GB HDD will say it has 74GB because when Windows converts the true size of the drive, for some reason it rounds it off by 1024MB instead of 1000MB. If you right click the 74GB drive, it will say around 80,000,000,000 bytes.
This still doesn't explain why your 80GB has lost its space but I was clearing up any confusion.
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A gigabyte really is 1,024Megabytes, the hard drive mfg's just want to make it seem bigger then it really is. And 80,000,000 bytes is the same as 76GB.
 
Well First, a new 80GB HDD will say it has 74GB because when Windows converts the true size of the drive, for some reason it rounds it off by 1024MB instead of 1000MB. If you right click the 74GB drive, it will say around 80,000,000,000 bytes.
This still doesn't explain why your 80GB has lost its space but I was clearing up any confusion.
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Of course. :)

Could the problem be caused due to platter deterioration or something similar, is that even possible without complete failure?

My main machine is the one with the problem, but is at a lan right now with the location not having internet access. so it could be monday before i get a chance to do any type of utilities.

Grim
 
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