Missing Hard Drive space?

[PwnFrnzy]

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?

 

[richc46]

Most likely its restore points.
But there can be other causes, just as in Vista.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/129976-hard-disk-space-free-up-recover.html

 

[profdlp]

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

 

[seavixen32]

Check out this excellent tutorial from Brink: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/129976-hard-disk-space-free-up-recover.html

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".

 

[essenbe]

profdlp, 931.3225....

 

[kurteb]

mine turned a 1000gb into 932gb