Missing GB

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Casey

I need some help recovering some space. My computer says
that I only have 16.31 GB total on my hard drive. My
computer came with 20 GB. Where is the rest of it? In
order to obtain the 16.31 bit of info, I am right clicking
on Local Disk (C:) from Windows Explorer and going to
properties where a pie chart is displayed. Any
suggestions? I upgraded from Windows ME to Windoes XP a
while back, and someone suggested that I could have done
something wrong there. Is this possible?? PLEASE HELP!!
 
Casey said:
I need some help recovering some space. My computer says
that I only have 16.31 GB total on my hard drive. My
computer came with 20 GB. Where is the rest of it? In
order to obtain the 16.31 bit of info, I am right clicking
on Local Disk (C:) from Windows Explorer and going to
properties where a pie chart is displayed. Any
suggestions? I upgraded from Windows ME to Windoes XP a
while back, and someone suggested that I could have done
something wrong there. Is this possible?? PLEASE HELP!!
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Go to Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Disk
management. Do you have a hidden partition showing, or is it free space? If
it's just free space then format it and you'll be able to use it.
 
Nick Burns said:
Your OS is taking up the room.
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Rubbish - if you right-click on the drive in My Computer that shows ALL the
available disk space INCLUDING the OS.
 
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Rifleman said:
Go to Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Disk
management. Do you have a hidden partition showing, or is it free
space? If it's just free space then format it and you'll be able to
use it.
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Over and above this, Casey also needs to realizethat his 20GB is
not what he thinks it is. All hard drive manufacturers, in a
deceptive attempt to make their drives seem larger than they are,
define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, while the rest of the computer
world, including Windows, defines it as 1024 x 1024 x 1024
(1,073,741,824) bytes. So 20 billion bytes is a little over
18.6GB. That doesn't account for the entire difference, but it's
a part of it.
 
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Over and above this, Casey also needs to realizethat his 20GB is
not what he thinks it is. All hard drive manufacturers, in a
deceptive attempt to make their drives seem larger than they are,
define 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, while the rest of the computer
world, including Windows, defines it as 1024 x 1024 x 1024
(1,073,741,824) bytes. So 20 billion bytes is a little over
18.6GB. That doesn't account for the entire difference, but it's
a part of it.
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Properties will shows both though, unless the OEM disabled
that, which I see as possible, but unlikely.
 
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