Lost GB's

[paintballakid5]

yo, i'm having some problems finding 12GB on my computer.. i have a 52GB hard drive, and i only have 10GB left... it says i'm using 42GB but when i check aroudn my computer in: Windows, Documents and settings, and Program files, i calculate i'm only using 30GB... so i'm trying to fing my extra 12GB... any pointers on where to look? or programs to look?

Thanks!:)

[Terin]

Do you have Vista? If so, I think it hides some of the hard drive space for pure system use. I have a 60GB HD, that is only about 49GB in Vista.

[CN3089]

Drivemaker's kilobyte. (http://www.xkcd.com/394/) http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-v.gif



Seriouspost yeah it's (probably) just hidden system files.

[paintballakid5]

no i have XP.

[Phopojijo]

http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/

Free Software -> SpaceMonger 1.4.0

It'll map everything on your harddrive by size. Big blocks = Big harddrive drain.

Just make sure you don't accidentally delete anything.

[Timo]

Isn't some taken up by system restore and virtual ram?

[paintballakid5]

i have no idea...

[Pope]

Isn't some taken up by system restore and virtual ram?

Yeah plus also things like OS. I believe Vista does that automatically (For instance my 160GB HD is only 149GB according to Vista).

I honestly don't understand the logic behind it.

[Bodzilla]

it's to make it seem like your not loosing Space running the OS.
It's nothing more then an illusion for stupid people.

[Kornman00]

I have to clear my system restore every week or so, Vista likes to rape mah C:\ drive of it's memory if I don't :|

[Patrickssj6]

Turn System Restore off ffs...it only causes problems. Viruses use it to restore themselves <3

[Pooky]

http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/

Free Software -> SpaceMonger 1.4.0

It'll map everything on your harddrive by size. Big blocks = Big harddrive drain.

Just make sure you don't accidentally delete anything.
Cool, I used that to free up about 15 gigs o.o

[Llama Juice]

found your lost pr0n collection?

[Pooky]

found your lost pr0n collection?

Well I did find that hidden folder where I put those pics we did a while back ;)



You haven't aged well D:

[Snaver]

Well the short answer is this.. If for example you have an 80gb hard drive, the actual amount you can use is only 74/5gb.. weird yes i know, then i would assume that theres a little used up by your operting system as people said (Virtual Ram,system restore etc)

I believe for my 250gig drive.. i only have access to like 230gigs, false advertising perhaps :D

[paintballakid5]

http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/

Free Software -> SpaceMonger 1.4.0

It'll map everything on your harddrive by size. Big blocks = Big harddrive drain.

Just make sure you don't accidentally delete anything.


so whats it do?:eyesroll:

[paintballakid5]

nevermind i know what it does... but i only got like 80MB with ti :(

EDIT: sorry for the double post.

[Phopojijo]

Well the short answer is this.. If for example you have an 80gb hard drive, the actual amount you can use is only 74/5gb.. weird yes i know, then i would assume that theres a little used up by your operting system as people said (Virtual Ram,system restore etc)

I believe for my 250gig drive.. i only have access to like 230gigs, false advertising perhaps :DHe's not talking about the base-10 base-2 conversion where you lose ~2% per unit conversion. He's talking about Windows.


Turn System Restore off ffs...it only causes problems. Viruses use it to restore themselves <3

Uh... no that's kinda... impossible.

If you have a virus -- and you erase it -- there would be nothing to force the restore. IE: If there's a virus around to cause the System Restore to activate -- you never actually got rid of the virus o.O

No more commonly viruses erase System Restore backups to PREVENT you from going back to a time before you had a virus.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Most of the time, Hard drives, External or internal, Are always a bit less in size then advertised, Mostly because companies decide to count 1gb as 1000mb instead of 1024mb, and the drive has to be formatted which probably takes up some more space

[paintballakid5]

well i know that... and thats fine... i'm saying i only have a 54Gb.... but now i'm missing stuff... it's supposed to bea 80GB and i have 54GB which is ok.. but i'm missing an Extra 10GB... :(

[Snaver]

Oh it isn't a HP/Dell/other system vendor computer is it? They like to mess with partitions for backup purposes/complete system restores.. like around the 10gig mark.

[paintballakid5]

hehe....:lol:

it's a DELL B110..(theye cheapest computer) and it's like 3 years old..:rolleyes:

[Terin]

Yeah... I just downgraded to XP on my Dell Inspiron 1501. They took a 5GB partition of the hard drive and made it into... a DVD drive? From what I could tell. Gotta watch out for those.