beensoldaduffscooby

Am I being stupid?
Just installed XP and a load of other stuff on a new laptop drive and am missing a load of Gbs.

It is a 100Gb drive that I partitioned into 20Gb for the system stuff (c and the remainder for data, etc (d.

If I right click on c: and look at the proprties it says 18.5 Gb is used.

If I left click on c: and then select everything on c: and look at the properties it says only 12Gb is used.

I selected to have all system and hidden folders and files visible and select them all when I looked at the proprties of C:.

What is using my missing Gb?

I thought it may be swap space of reserved space for cd/dvd burning etc. Am I right and is this normal?

How can I check what is using the 'missing' Gb?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

more down to how the manufacturers round up the actual; drive size.....

100Gb drive is never 100GB.....

beensoldaduffscooby

I understand what you are saying but I don't think that is the case in this situation.

Depending upon which method I use to look at the properties of a 20Gb partition, there is a 6.5 Gb difference reported in the used quantity of disk space.

Any ideas?

jowl

There's stuff like system restore area, hidden files, Virtual mem etc

beensoldaduffscooby

Cheers. But does that really take 6.5 Gb? I guess it must.

Thanks.

Ian Cook

check for a hibernation file ! settings are in screen saver/power management settings if i remember correctly ! this can take huge amounts of space ! if you unhide all the system files etc, it will show as a hiber.fil i think. Just turn off hibernation and it will free that space up.