Ok...here is a weird one for you all.

My wife's laptop has a hard drive that is 137GB (there is a 10GB HDD recovery partition). When I open "Computer" and highlight all folders and right click/properties it only adds up to 102GB...where are the 35GB's hiding???? I know that a 1TB hard drive is really like 760GB due to 1024mb coding blah blah blah...

so...where is it?

 

a 1 TB drive should be 931GB when formatted down.

There could be some virtual processing space allocated. Also, you might want to check what's in her "temp" folder. You'll be surprised how much crap builds up in there.

 

i don't think my HD space ever came out to what the paper says I have. i had a 120gig one i think i had 100 gigs or so to use.

 

Is the hard drive 100% full. Because if not than the rest is empty space.

 

There is only 7.2GB of empty space...I know it isn't 32GB of free space h:

 

Hidden files and folders from Windows?

And your porn collection.

 

format c:

 

It is because they sell it as 137 GB or 137 x 10^9. But when your computer counts, it counts by 1024. So it sees a GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes not, 1,000,000,000. There is also loss due to the formatting and internal addressing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_di...y_measurements

 

this guy is correct ^

 

Did you not read my first post? I know how a 250GB HDD is read as 217 or whatever it is. The read space is 137GB not the size that is labelled on the HDD.