HDD not showing full capacity.

steve_ · 2011-04-25 13:42:17

Is there any reason why my hard drive isnt showing its full capacity? Its a 180gb drive thats only show 100gb of free space. All that is installed on the drive is the OS. Is there a way for me to completely wipe the drive and perform a fresh install? Seems when i do a reinstall alot of files stay on the drive. Id like to…

25-04-2011 01:42PM

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Is there any reason why my hard drive isnt showing its full capacity? Its a 180gb drive thats only show 100gb of free space. All that is installed on the drive is the OS. Is there a way for me to completely wipe the drive and perform a fresh install? Seems when i do a reinstall alot of files stay on the drive. Id like to just to a complete wipe, and start from scratch.

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#2 25-04-2011 04:27PM

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If it's a 180gb hard drive then when it's formatted it will show as 167gb (multiply by 0.93 roughly). This is because hard drive manufacturers define capactiy in base-10 whereas when it's formatted it's base-2. Is your hard drive taking up 67gb?

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#3 25-04-2011 08:35PM

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a lot of manu's also have recovry partitions in the host protected area

windows will also use swap file and hidden system restore areas

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