I have a 500gb HD. After formating the capacity of the drive is 465 gigs. The usage chart for c:\ shows 340 gb used but the contents of c:\ is only 257.
What am I missing?
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The deficit is likely being used by such items as System Restore and/or Volume Shadow Copies ("Previous Versions").
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom Build
- CPU
- AMD Phenom 9600 Quad
- Motherboard
- ASUS MB-M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi
- Memory
- 2 x A-Data 2GB DDR2-800
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- ASUS ATI Radeon HD 2400PRO
- Monitor(s) Displays
- SAHARA 21"
- Screen Resolution
- 1600x1200
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- 2 x 80GB Seagate (I) 2 x 120GB Seagate (I/S) 2 x 200GB Seagate (I/S) 2 x 250GB Seagate (I/S)
- PSU
- 800W
- Case
- Thermaltake Tai-Chi
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- Logitech
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- Currently dual booting between Vista x64 Ultimate Windows 7 BETA x64
That is most likely being taken up by the hard disc buffer. Is it a 32mb one?
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Self built
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- Intel E8400 3GHz
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- Intel DX48BT2
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- Kingston PC3-10666 4Gb
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- XFX 9800 GTX XXX
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- Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
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- 2x Samsung SM-T220HD 22"
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- WD Raptor X/150Gb in RAID0 WD Raptor 36gb 3x Samsung F1 1Tb
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- Thermaltake ToughPower 850w
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- 8128/832
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- Thermaltake Muse esata caddy
Hi
The discrepency is because of how the drive manufacturers use decimal units to calculate the drive size and the computer's OS uses a binary system.
An example, take a hard drive that can store exactly 250×10/9(to the 9th power) or 250 billion bytes after formatting. Generally, operating systems calculate disk and file sizes using binary numbers, so this 250 GB drive would be reported as "232.83 GB". The result is that there is a significant discrepancy between what the consumer believes they have purchased and what their operating system says they have.
So you're not losing any space anywhere, you're just another confused consumer because the industry cannot set a standard for everyone to use. Some legislation is under way in some areas to force manufacturers to list both the GB (gigabyte, the decimal units) and also in GiB (gibabyte, the binary).
The discrepency is because of how the drive manufacturers use decimal units to calculate the drive size and the computer's OS uses a binary system.
An example, take a hard drive that can store exactly 250×10/9(to the 9th power) or 250 billion bytes after formatting. Generally, operating systems calculate disk and file sizes using binary numbers, so this 250 GB drive would be reported as "232.83 GB". The result is that there is a significant discrepancy between what the consumer believes they have purchased and what their operating system says they have.
So you're not losing any space anywhere, you're just another confused consumer because the industry cannot set a standard for everyone to use. Some legislation is under way in some areas to force manufacturers to list both the GB (gigabyte, the decimal units) and also in GiB (gibabyte, the binary).
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Personal Build
- CPU
- Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo
- Motherboard
- Asus Commando MoBo (P965/ICH8R)
- Memory
- 4G's Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 PC26400 RAM
- Graphics card(s)
- BFG 8800GTS OC2 320MB
- Sound Card
- Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Platinum FATAL1TY (next)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2 x 22" w2207 LCD Monitors
- Screen Resolution
- 1- 1680 x 1050, 1 - 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- 3 x 500G SATA II WD Caviar HDD's
- PSU
- EnerMax NoiseTaker II 600W
- Case
- NZXT Lexa Classic (modified, dual doored & windowed)
- Cooling
- Zalman 9700 CPU cooler, 4-120mm fans, 1-90mm
- Mouse
- Logitech Optical Trackman trackball
- Other Info
- NZXT Lexa Classic Case, Zalman 9700 CPU Cooler, 2 DVD Burners c/w LightScribe (Sony, TSST), Enermax NoiseTaker II 600W PSU with Custom Chrome cable sleeving, Hauppauge HDTV TV Tuner Card, 5.1 Logitech Z5500 speakers, 15 in 1 Multi-card reader