Where's my memory?

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Mikea08

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I just bought a new laptop with vista. It has a 140 gb HDD, and only 99gb available. If I go to my C: drive and highlight all the folders, it says there are only 20 gb taken. What happened to the other 20 gigs?
 
I'm guessing part of is a recovery partition that was put on by your company. Do you have like a D drive on there? Google spacemonger it will show you where its all at.. I use it on my servers at work.
 
That program is pretty cool, but it just said that i had 18 gigs ofunscannable files. There is a back-up drive, but i think it is free standing because when i change the size, the leftover doesnt go onto my HDD. It's also only like 8 gb, so that still doesnt explain 10 gigs. Thanks though.
 
The main reason for the loss of disk space is most likely because of a hidden recovery partition or similar setup. To see if thats the case, launch disk management by going to the control panel, and then administrator tools.
 
Isn't there also the loss because of binary.... my 60GB passport only has 55, so a 140 should have 128. And then Vista takes up some.
 
Gotta love HDD manufacturers 500 GB is really 500000000 bytes

500000000 / 1024 (bytes in a Megabyte) = 488281.25 MB

488281.25 MB /1024 (MB in a Gigabyte) = 476.84 GB

Then throw in the FAT32 or NTFS Table and you get roughly 465 GB out of a "500 GB drive"

In case you were curious.
 
Thanks guys. That makes sense. I didn't realize that the OS took up space that i couldnt see. If the partition came out of the main HDD, that's about right. It says capacity is 140.23 gb though, so i didn't lose any on that.
 
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