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Storage HDD missing 15GB!

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Circuitbreaker8

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This is just wierd, all the stuff in my backup 80Gb Seagate Barracuda add up to 24Gb, yet I only have 34Gb left...where is the rest?!
 
Circuitbreaker8 said:
This is just wierd, all the stuff in my backup 80Gb Seagate Barracuda add up to 24Gb, yet I only have 34Gb left...where is the rest?!
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Oh, my... You must have originally formatted that drive under Windows 98 or 98SE, which has major problems with hard drives larger than 64GB. W98/98SE has a bug which reports the wrong capacity of such drives - an 80GB hard drive, which should have been reported as 74GB, actually gets reported as only 10GB under those OSes. But when you migrate that hard drive to a system running a newer version of Windows such as XP, that hard drive gets reported as having only 64GB of total capacity. And about 6GB of that 64GB was taken up by an old Windows swap file and miscellaneous hidden files.

Windows 2000/XP can use FAT32 - but those OSes cannot format a FAT32 volume larger than 32GB. Which means that you'll need to use at least three partitions on that 80GB hard drive if you want to format FAT32 volumes under 2000/XP.
 
E4g1e said:
Oh, my... You must have originally formatted that drive under Windows 98 or 98SE, which has major problems with hard drives larger than 64GB. W98/98SE has a bug which reports the wrong capacity of such drives - an 80GB hard drive, which should have been reported as 74GB, actually gets reported as only 10GB under those OSes. But when you migrate that hard drive to a system running a newer version of Windows such as XP, that hard drive gets reported as having only 64GB of total capacity. And about 6GB of that 64GB was taken up by an old Windows swap file and miscellaneous hidden files.

Windows 2000/XP can use FAT32 - but those OSes cannot format a FAT32 volume larger than 32GB. Which means that you'll need to use at least three partitions on that 80GB hard drive if you want to format FAT32 volumes under 2000/XP.
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windows 98 has no issue with large HD's
*points to his own dual p3 system*
win 98se is fat and happy running on a 200gb drive formated fat32
with no issues of missing disk space....
now it is true that 200/xp wont format fat32 bigger than 32gb
this is an M$ thing to force people over to ntfs....
using a program like partition magic you can format very large disks into fat32 within windows 2000/xp
the swap file on a 98se install is 1gb max
the entire windows install itself is less than a gig

i mentioned norton because there are alot of anti virus programs that will keep things in your recycle bin even after you have deleted tham
for days or weeks as backups
and you have to manualy purge them to get rid of stuff
and it wont show up when browsing around mycomputer...

what os are you running?
 
I vote for your recycle bin. Right-click on My Computer, select manage and go to disk management (local disks). What size is Windows reporting it as?
 
if your HDD has bad sectors and windows knows, it will take the bad sectors off the table and show your HDD with a smaller space (this is useable space in NON bad sectors) ive had a 40GB HDD i formatted it and showed up as 37.5GB which is typical, after a year i noticed it had bad sectors on it so i formated it again and now it only has 32GB. have you heard grinding noises from your HDD? cuz that maybe what is going on here
 
system restore points also have a way of hiding themselves on the drive.
 
System restore and the recycle bin take up quite a bit. The recycle bin takes 10% of the drive. So on a 40GB drive that's 4GB missing. System restore takes up as much as it needs if I recall correctly. It's needs will vary based on your system config. The drive may also not be setup correctly either.
 
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