missing some disc space

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isaacual69

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wondering...i have a 80 gig hdd that registers about 75 gigs in windows which is normal i think?...my problem is when i go into properties for that drives space it says that i have used 12 gigs...when i open the drive and select all the contents hidden files and all it only registers that the size of all the data on that drive is 7 gigs...any ideas as of why its doing this...my other 2 drives are registering about 5-9 gigs lower than what they actualy are which is fine cause when i check the amount of data on it and compare that to the properties on the drive its right on...only my c drive is doing this...it is about 2 months old bought it brand new from newegg and its a seagate...thanks for your help
 
it may be an invisible paging/firmware partition

i think most ata drives have this.......

also, the discrepancy between actual and shown disk space is due to microsoft's improper interchangeability between gigabytes and gibabytes.

1000mB vs. 1024mB
 
Without getting into the whole calculation deal, hard drive manufacturers only use 1000MB for a gigabyte(1024MB) An 80GB drive being only 74-75GB is(unfortunetly) perfectly normal.
 
right well i have been reading and that is pretty much what i have figured thank you again and if you have a chance please take a look at my other thread in the desktop area...i need to know how much i could sell my computer for thanks again...this issue is resolved
 
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