Not sure if this is hardware or software related

I have a drive that claims I only have 31gigs of free space.
However when I highlight the contents (folders/files) of the drive, the total of the content is 65.8gigs and yet the total disk space is 132gigs.
30 odd gigs are lost somewhere, somehow, any ideas?
I THINK it's a partitioned drive as well...forgot. lol

 

I dont know if this is of any help or the correct answer, but I read in a magazine a little while back that when HDDs were smaller in size. Years ago. The manufacturers used to round of the MB, instead of a GB being 1024mb, they would round it to 1000mb. Back then it wasnt really noticable but now we have much bigger drives it has noticable, I dont think this is the case with all manufacturers however. Im unsure if this is totally correct, I havent looked through my mags for the exact details, but maybee its this? But also maybee not! Just a suggestion.confused

Maybee the other partition is the 30 gigs also? Have you tried lookng on a program like everest?

 

Heres what I was talking about above. I apologise that what I said abouve is pretty much wrong! But on the right sort of wavelength!
http://www.winbookcorp.com/_technote/WBTA14000543.htm
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/hdd/spaceBinaryDecimal-c.html

This might not be the correct answer like I say however, just a suggestion.

 

You could have a hidden partition on it? you can make them with partition magic

 

It's a 250gig harddrive with 2 partitions.
One is 100, other is 150 (actually 132).

 

ok just a guess, this has happened before to a fellow MG he just ended up leaving it. he could still physically use all his hard drive but his computer said other wise. Just a small problem in the grand scheme of things.

But waynes second post seems most feasible so i doubt your hard drive is broke at the end of the day.

Yours
UKARMYCADET

 

ok just a guess, this has happened before to a fellow MG he just ended up leaving it. he could still physically use all his hard drive but his computer said other wise. Just a small problem in the grand scheme of things.

But waynes second post seems most feasible so i doubt your hard drive is broke at the end of the day.

Yours
UKARMYCADET

 

Restarting issues can be hardware or software problems ....ram, overheating, software conflicts, etc.