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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?
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?
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; 08 Sep 2011 at 02:13. Reason: replaced link with one of ours for the same thing
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. :)
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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".