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Windows 7 - Missing Hard Drive space?
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| 07-12-2011 | #1 |
| | Missing Hard Drive space? I seems that I'm missing 46GB of space on my hard drive, any idea what is going on, or if one of there programs are notorious for displaying incorrect information? |
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| 07-12-2011 | #2 |
| | Most likely its restore points. But there can be other causes, just as in Vista. Hard Disk Space - Free Up and Recover Last edited by Brink; 09-08-2011 at 02:13 AM.. Reason: replaced link with one of ours for the same thing |
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| 07-12-2011 | #3 |
| | That's the normal size for a 1TB drive. What you're seeing is the difference between binary (240) and decimal counting (1012 ). HD Manufacturers: 1000 Bits = 1 Byte and 1000 Bytes = 1MB and 1000 MB = 1GB and 1000GB = 1TB 1000 X 1000 X 1000 = 1,000,000,000,000 or 1TB Windows: 1024MB = 1GB 1,000,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 /1024 = 939.3225746154785 (I did that in my head, so it might be off in the last decimal place.) <= Big Fat Lie The other ~.9 etc is the 100MB System Reserved space at the beginning of the drive.  Terabyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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| 07-13-2011 | #4 |
| | Check out this excellent tutorial from Brink: Hard Disk Space - Free Up and Recover On today's large hard drives, shadow storage at 10-15% can easily eat up 10-15GB of a 1TB drive. Add that to the way drive space is calculated as explained by profdlp, it's not hard to see where 46GB went "missing". |
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| 07-13-2011 | #5 |
| | profdlp, 931.3225.... |
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