Hard drive GB not showing.

I have just bought the ASUS F3SV-A1 yesterday. According to the specs of the model, it should have 160GB of hard drive space. When i click on my computer it says the following: VistaOS(C: ) 51GB of 74.5 GB free. Should it not say that there is 160GB space instead of 74.5 GB?

 

That is a problem! It will not report 160 ever but 74.5 is wrong. 148 is about right. Can you access the HDD by removing a few screws and confirm?

Is it partitioned? Other Drive letters like D:

 

Have you partioned the Hard Drive? Or, Asus might have made a mistake and installed a 80GB HDD. I recommend to open up the Hard Drive bay cover and take a look at the label on the HDD, on which the capacity should be printed. If it is the wrong HDD, you need to get in touch with Asus customer support.

The Manafacturers usually round the actual capacity to a nice round number, so it may be 5 to 10GB less.

 

Does the HDD have another partition?

Go to Computer Management and check the total disk size and partitions (or unpartitioned space).

John

 

it also says: DATA (D: ) 67.5GB free of 67.5GB. I'm not sure what this means if anything.

 

it means you have the right HDD

7 GB might still be hiding somewhere?

 

OK. You have got two partitions - C: and D:. I recommend that you keep all your personal files in D: because if you ever need to reinstall Windows you might have to wipe C: and lose whatever is there.

Now, why doesn't 73.5 + 67.5 = 160? Because HDD manufacturers think a Giga is 1000 x 1000 x 1000, but computers think a Giga is 1024 x 1024 x 1024.

John

 

I still think he is missing 7 GB any ideas?

 

im just happy im missing 7 GB instead of 85

 

Yea I see your point!

 

answer could be the manufact. whoever the comapany is partitioned the drive with 2 formatted partitions c: d: and thus left a small un-used part at the begining or end of the drive something like 7-15gb.

not sure why the do this but my last 2 laptops have always had 2 partions and both had a loose unused bit at the beginging. toshiba and now this fuji.

mine has a 160gb and i have c: 76gb / d: 60gb.

only way to correct with usage to all minus the 10-15gb formatting of course is to use a program like partiton magic or partition manager but im not sure if they would work so a reinstallation of the operating system might be your only choice and when it asks about the partition you should delete the loose small 10gb ish and the drive c: so they combine and then repartition with vista or xp making a new partition c: ready to install the operating system.

long winded but if i were you stick with what you have as saving 10gb isnt worth all that hasle

 

or if you laptop supports 2 drives like mine insert the second drive partiton and format it the remove it and replace with the 160gb drive and then install a fresh copy of windows onto that knowing you have access to the most space you can get out of the drive and then after installation and everythings set up reinstall old drive in 2nd bay and erase the partitions and start the drive fresh.

NOTE:
++But dont forget to back up all you stuff that you need to dvd or cd before you start this++

 

There could also be a hidden restore/ recovery partition.

John

 

My desktop HD is 120gb, its actually 114.... John is right... why do you think u see a gig of ram being 1024Mb? just like kilo- in the dictionary is a prefix for 1000, wen in comps its 1024... john beat me to it

 

He really beat you to it! My normal excuse is I type slow, I hope that is not yours!

The long and the short is base 10 vs base 2.