Laptop hard drive capacity.

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  1. neilcolt

    neilcolt Regular member

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    I have a toshiba A210-17I Equium.

    I had a snag and the HDD was recovered but it wiped all the old data off and it was a clean install.
    Looking at my drive capacity using my computer,it is telling me that i am using 35gig of a 74.4 gig HDD(allowing for graphics etc).
    Going through all the files on this drive i can only find 20 gig exploring the C drive of this drive.I would like to know where the other 15 gig is being used/what for.
    I am running vista 32 bit home premium.Could this 15 gig be "hidden files".
    Thanks.
     
  2. TehUltra

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    It may be "hidden files", possibly because vista puts files all over the hdd. Or, it could be that it is using base 10 instead of base 2 math (1gb = 1024mb, but is shown as equaling 1000mb)
     

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