The missing 700 megabytes

[Steve]

My hard drive is partitioned into a c: and d: drive. The c: drive has WinXP
home and applications on it. It is a 6GB partition.

Getting the properties of the c: drive from My Computer, I learn I have 50MB
free and 5.56 GB, or 5,978,591232 bytes used.

If I open the c: drive, highlight everything (hidden files are showing) I
learn that I have 4.82 GB, or 5,185,631,058 bytes used

Why should there be such a large discrepancy?
Which is true?
What can I do to regain that 700MB?

Thanks!

 

[Lars]

invest in a bigger or 2nd HD.....join the 21st century...

 

[Tom]

My hard drive is partitioned into a c: and d: drive. The c: drive has WinXP
home and applications on it. It is a 6GB partition.

Getting the properties of the c: drive from My Computer, I learn I have 50MB
free and 5.56 GB, or 5,978,591232 bytes used.

If I open the c: drive, highlight everything (hidden files are showing) I
learn that I have 4.82 GB, or 5,185,631,058 bytes used

Why should there be such a large discrepancy?
Which is true?
What can I do to regain that 700MB?

Thanks!

You don't regain, it is correct. When you look at total bytes, you are seeing that long number in decimal, meaning the actual total of "bytes" referencing what you see. When you see it say X.X GBs, it is translated into binary figure, which will show being less, but it still has the correct total overall.

 

[Tom]

invest in a bigger or 2nd HD.....join the 21st century...

Why, this person obviously has a 60g drive, why is that not 21st century?

 

[dglock]

do you have a computer that has system restore disks?
if so then you may have a hidden partition that contains
the system restore files.
don

-----Original Message-----



You don't regain, it is correct. When you look at total

bytes, you are seeing that long number in decimal,
meaning the actual total of "bytes" referencing what you
see. When you see it say X.X GBs, it is translated into
binary figure, which will show being less, but it still
has the correct total overall.

 

[kurttrail]

Why, this person obviously has a 60g drive, why is that not 21st
century?

Drive C: "It is a 6GB partition."

Drive D: Size never mentioned

So where did you come up with "60g?"

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[Steve]

Yes, my Sony PCG-FX340 came with an assortment of system restore disks.
Hidden files may certainly be a possibility, but why put the files on the PC
when I have the disks? How can I go about finding out if there is a hidden
partition?

 

[Steve]

OK, never mind the decimal numbers: 5.56GB - 4.82 GB = 0.74GB missing. I
want my 0.74GB back!

My hard drive is partitioned into a c: and d: drive. The c: drive has WinXP
home and applications on it. It is a 6GB partition.

Getting the properties of the c: drive from My Computer, I learn I have 50MB
free and 5.56 GB, or 5,978,591232 bytes used.

If I open the c: drive, highlight everything (hidden files are showing) I
learn that I have 4.82 GB, or 5,185,631,058 bytes used

Why should there be such a large discrepancy?
Which is true?
What can I do to regain that 700MB?

Thanks!

You don't regain, it is correct. When you look at total bytes, you are
seeing that long number in decimal, meaning the actual total of "bytes"
referencing what you see. When you see it say X.X GBs, it is translated into
binary figure, which will show being less, but it still has the correct
total overall.

 

[NetNut]

Steve,
There are the regular 'Hidden Files' and 'Hidden System Files'. Are
'Hidden System files' showing also?
Look down that same check list two or three lines for that option.
Try deleting some restore points and see how much space they were hogging.
Probably most of it.
And if you have not got a warning from XP about low disk space yet, You
probably will very soon.
But I think you may be surprised at how much the price of 30-60GB HDDs have
come down.
The NetNut