Hardrive Space Question
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It all depends on what you referring to there. Are you calculating by looking at the drives through Windows Explorer? When a drive is first partitioned and formatted you lose some of the advertised space since drive capacities are rounded off to whole numbers.
An 80gb drive should see roughly 74-76gb approximate when ready for use. A 500gb sata drive here saw 465gb once the single partition was created on it and then formatted. Drives seem like they lose space until you calculate heads, sectors, cylinders to find that an 80gb drive should be seeing some odd number like 80,000,303,403 bytes pn the post screen when first starting the system up if the logo is disabled and post tests are shown.
An 80gb drive should see roughly 74-76gb approximate when ready for use. A 500gb sata drive here saw 465gb once the single partition was created on it and then formatted. Drives seem like they lose space until you calculate heads, sectors, cylinders to find that an 80gb drive should be seeing some odd number like 80,000,303,403 bytes pn the post screen when first starting the system up if the logo is disabled and post tests are shown.
2048Megabytes
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Also a word of advice. Don't let your hard drive get more than 80% full. If you let your hard drive get to maximum capacity it could cause you major problems.
One other explaination for not seeing a large amount of drive space would be something oscaryu1 only asks about namely was the primary partition created smaller then the full amount of drive space available? The real question is what are you going by when stating that drive space is missing?
tlarkin
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what OS is it?
Check the size of the Documents and Settings folder. A lot of times a buggy program can write to a temp file billions of times making it gigabytes in size.
If its Linux or OS X you can utilize the du command
I don't think yours will be as large as the one here while you wait for the total count. Here it shows 1.26gb with some 26,646 files in it.
When browsing folders are you sure you were not looking at any disk in thecd or dvd drive? You may have mistaken what was seen there for drive space which was simply the total amount of files on a disk not the total amount for your hard drive.
When browsing folders are you sure you were not looking at any disk in thecd or dvd drive? You may have mistaken what was seen there for drive space which was simply the total amount of files on a disk not the total amount for your hard drive.
tlarkin
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Unless some program errored out and wrote 25 billion times to a log file making it 20 gigs in size, which can happen it is kind of common in all OSes with software that can go buggy.
b3rt_d4ni3l
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Well, if the computer have been running for quite some times, it is possible that it accumulated temp files from visiting websites. The OP can try downloading CCleaner found here: CCleaner link
Run the Cleaner and also try to fix the registry. The latter is not necessary if you are not comfortable with but definitely run the cleaner. It removes about 2GB worth of junk the first time I ran it.
Run the Cleaner and also try to fix the registry. The latter is not necessary if you are not comfortable with but definitely run the cleaner. It removes about 2GB worth of junk the first time I ran it.
Can we assume that the ton of pics is a large amount of screenshots taken while the game was running? That can easily take up a good amount of drive space. But the question is what are you going by when saying that drive space is missing?
After partitioning and formatting you will see about 74gb useable drive space before Windows and any games, programs are installed. Now create some 20-30gb of screenshots and the drive space then available has dropped sharply if you have constantly taking screenshots over a period of time. Or are you simply referring to the amount of drive space seen after seeing Windows and the game installed due to the space used up for those?