Hard Drive Problem-Asus G1

Yup, the G1 not the G1s but Im guessing that there isnt a large difference since both models have the same hard drive. The problem Im having is that whenever i check my C Drive's space (only have one drive, didnt partition to C and D cause it was reformmated) and supposingly it is out of 149GB. It says that i have 77GB of free space, and I have my fair share of games and other stuff on my laptop so I didnt suspect anything until i started to uninstall some of my games and stuff, and then i realized that it didnt add up right. After checking the size of "Program Files, User, Windows" files, I found out that I only used 50GB of space, but after doing a disk cleanup and stuff, it still stayed at 70 something GB. Im just wondering if theres some things that im missing, or if theres a problem with my harddrive? would a disk error check fix this? any help would be appreciated!

 

the g1 has a hidden recovery partition....that is probably your "missing" space.

 

so that recovery partition is 30 GB?

 

I'm not really getting the numbers...

What is supposed to be the HDD space?

What is it actually? (occuppied, free space)

Be aware that:
1. The capacity of the harddrive is reported by the manufacturer in GB where GB = 10^9 bytes = 1000^3, whereas Windows computes it using 1GiB = 2^30 bytes, which is actually 1024^3; so the Windows number will be smaller with a few GB than what your manufacturer says.

They say it's some sort of legacy thing, but my bet it's just a marketing ploy to make it seem the hardrives are bigger than they actually are.
2. The file system takes a little space (not in the amount of GB though).

Edit 3. There is also the recovery partition but that's only a few GB, at most 10 even with Vista. But you can see its size that via a partition manager (maybe even Computer Management will show it to you, in WinXP I think it does)

 

You never get the full hdd amount on a normal setup you have to do some advanced things to make sure windows doesnt hold any of it for stuff, and asus also uses a hidden partition for emergancy recovery. I dont think you would need it since you have a recovery disk. But is it worth the trouble to remove it for the extra space??

probably not, atleast not untill you find yourself one day having to do a fresh install of your OS for some reason. That would be a good time to do it.