212 Missing GB's

[CMYK Artistry]

I have a Acer laptop and I just installed a reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate and it's only showing 131GB?

I have a Acer laptop and I just installed a reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate and it's only showing 131GB free of 148GB drive C:/ and then a System Reserved Drive E:\ that has about 100MB of space total now that would be fine for me except my hard drive it a 360GB I just re-installed my OS does anyone have any suggestions or anything for me to find the rest of my lost GB's? I asked someone on another fourms and and they told me it was only 17GB I shouldn't be worried but in actuality it's 212GB missing I just wanted to know if anyone could help me I did the right click computer > manage>and storage nothing showed up only the system reserved drive e:\ can someone help me out please thanks alot I really thought reinstalling the OS would help guess it didn't

 

[Britton30]

Did you accidently create a new partition? How did you install a reinstall?

Also due to the difference in binary and decimal calculations of drive size, you may actually have about 335GB instead of 360GB.

Please post up a snip of your Disk Management window.

 

[Miranova23]

For more details about just what is going on, check Disk Management and post a screencap of it. To get to there, press WindowsKey+R (to open Run), then type "diskmgmt.msc" and hit enter.

Let's see, so far...
360GB total disk size
Figuring 90% actual usable space...
~40GB at most for OS, programs
100MB reserved on E:\
~284 should be left.

Indeed, there must be something else. Also, have you moved any files over yet?

 

[CMYK Artistry]

This is the capture of my disk management

 

[Ztruker]

Disk Management says you have a 150GB hard drive.

Can you post a snap shot of Device Manager with Disk drives expanded? That should show the model number (and maybe manufacturer) of the drive.

 

[Miranova23]

That's really strange--- in that, everything looks fine.
Forgive me, but it does beg the question... Why do you say the hard drive is 360GB? =/

 

[CMYK Artistry]

Because when I purchased the hard drive the technician told me it was a 360GB Sata Hard Drive

 

[Britton30]

Yes you have an extra 101GB partiton there. It won't show up as part of your drive space since it is unallocated. If you have no intention of using it for, say storage or another OS, Try this tutorial: Partition or Volume-Extend

 

[CMYK Artistry]

Capture of Device Manager with Disk Drives expanded

 

[Britton30]

It shows as a 148.95GB drive because the 101GB in unallocated space. Still together the drive is about 250GB. Can you see the label on the drive and get make and model number? You may see the size listed on it too.
WD Scorpio Blue 160 GB SATA Hard Drives ( WD1600BEVT)

 

[Miranova23]

If there is anything left unallocated, shouldn't it have shown up in Disk Management?
(I'm not sure now... I usually use Acronis Disk Director myself.)

Everything for that serial number shows up as being a 160GB drive, 5400RPM, 2.5"...

CMYK Artistry, I'm sorry but the technician was mistaken. I know the feeling, believe me. I ordered, via a salesman who punched it in wrong, a 64bit laptop back in 2006, only I didn't really know what it meant til years later. Incidentally, the time period to call Dell out on a botched order is like 30 days or something. Sorry, man. Those #s are right.

 

[Britton30]

Just a thought, are you posting this info from the effected computer?
Indeed the hard drive is 160GB, but your disk mngmt window shows otherwise, ~250GB.

 

[Miranova23]

It shows as a 148.95GB drive because the 101GB in unallocated space. Still together the drive is about 250GB.

I think I finally see where you're getting 101GB from-- the Disk Management screencap shows (albeit disproportionately large in the graphic) only 101Megabytes.
Sorry...

 

[Britton30]

It shows as a 148.95GB drive because the 101GB in unallocated space. Still together the drive is about 250GB.

I think I finally see where you're getting 101GB from-- the Disk Management screencap shows (albeit disproportionately large in the graphic) only 101Megabytes.
Sorry...

LOL, you are right. There is no missing space after all. Just an untruthful tech.

 

[Miranova23]

Okay, for a sec I thought I was going crazy. ^o^ Hard disk ins and outs aside, I was like, whyyyy are my numbers not adding up like his??? LOL k.

Again, sorry there, CMYK. Check your receipt/invoice and make sure it says '160' or the serial number somewhere. If not, hopefully you can get a replacement for what you actually wanted.

 

[Britton30]

160GB=160,000,000,000 bytes per HDD makers.
1073741824 real bytes per GB = 149.011 GB as Windows would report

The HDD may have a few hundred thousand bytes more or less.

 

[Britton30]

BTW Miranova, the view can be changed in disk mngmt. View>Settings>Scaling. This view is logarithmic.

 

[CMYK Artistry]

This isn't in order but this is all information

MDL:WD3200BPVT-22ZESTO
WWN:50014EE20510D9D6
DATE:02 OCT 2010
DCM:HEBVJABB
DCXZ07E9FSO
LBA:625142448
5VDC-0.55A
R/N 771672A
SERIAL NUMBER: WXD1A90D0378

 

[Miranova23]

(DCXZ07E9FSO- LOL)

Ahah! WD3200BPVT. Is that from the invoice? There ya go, you were supposed to get a 320GB drive. 'u'




Also, thanks, Britton. I'll keep that in mind. The crazy sizing does tend to throw ya off. =)

 

[CMYK Artistry]

I got it off the sticker that's on the actual hard drive not the recepit from the store