I've Lost Harddrive Memory after reformatting! Help!!

Hi all,

First system specs:

Acer Aspire 2000 laptop
XP home
Ram:512
CPU: 1.4 Centrino
Hard drive: 40 GB partitioned into 14GB C: drive and 26GB D: drive
Antivirus: AntiVir

Problem: Had this brainwave last Friday night that I'd go and reformat my computer and take everything back to First Base! All went well (apart from the normal confusion that goes along with wanting to spend a Friday evening downloading a million updates)

Anyway when I've gone to properties after selecting all the files in C drive this amounts to 7.33GB where as when I just right click properties in C drive it tells me that I've used: 8.19GB. Now that's 860Mb that Windows is not letting me access as far as I know.

Could somebody please confirm if this is so? And if there are any ways for me to access this 860Mb? It doesn't sound like a lot but when you've only got 40 Gb to play with it means you lose nearly a Gb!

Regards,

Captaindaz!

 

Hi Halo,

Thanks for the quick reply, but I've already thought of that hint. My original statement does include the hidden files etc.

Further thoughts???

Regards,

Captaindaz.

 

Anyone else have any thoughts????