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Win 7 and lost disk space

  • 15-11-2009 5:25pm
    #1
    k123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭


    Win 7 and lost disk space

    Bought a 320 hard drive, installed Win 7

    My computer shows I have a 297gb drive, where has the other 23gb gone ?
    and how do I access it


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  • #2
    Bob_Harris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭Bob_Harris


    Windows 7 takes up 12 gigs.

    Use spacemonger to see what is taking up the space

    http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php


  • #3
    k123456
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭k123456


    My computer say 280 free of 297 total , so I think the 17 is Win 7, office etc, which is OK. However the total figure should be approx 320 not 297 ?


  • #4
    BattlingCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭BattlingCheese


    you haven't lost anything

    1 Gb = 1024 Mb
    1 Mb = 1024 Kb
    1 Kb = 1024 bytes

    The problem is that manufacturers consider:
    1 Gb = 1.000.000.000 bytes, so a pendrive of 1 Gb has a capacity of 1.000.000.000, instead of the "real" Gb value (1.073.741.824 bytes)

    So your hard drive only has 297Gb


  • #5
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    thats normal. Manufacturers use a smaller measurement unit so there is a higher number of them

    edit bet and bettered


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