missing hard disc space - anything I can do about it?

[tomw3uk]

Hi,

I've got a targa pc with a 200gb hard disc,

but in the my computer bit, it says its only 175gb.

where did the other 25gb go?

and surely i must be able to get some of it back?

any help much appreciated.
cheers.
Tom

[bouncingjohn]

It'll be down to the different ways of measuring a Gigabyte. HDD manufacturers round the figure to 1000Mb=1Gb, whereas your computer uses 1024Mb=1Gb. Plus you'll lose a bit of space due to formatting and indexes.

[Jamie1982]

If you have a Norton Protected Recycle bin, try emptying the protected files.


Jamie

[lynx]

Yep. 175 is about right.

[werewolf]

175 is pretty low, my 120gb drives read as 111gb in windows.

my guess is that some space is probably being used by a disc image on a hidden partition for restoring the windows install and other programes.

[lynx]

My 160 is reported as 149gb.

[DJBenson]

As a general rule of thumb, the following drive capacities will give these amounts of space on the drive:

80GB = 74GB
120GB = 111GB
160GB = 153GB
200GB = 189GB
250GB = 233GB

This is dependent upon many factors including manufacturer, disk format used (FAT32 or NTFS) and operating system.

[movaado]

Targa PCs don't have a recovery partition or something do they?

What does disk management say? (control panel - administrative tools - computer management)