20GB of Harddrive Missing???

Hi there,
The laptop I'm using is the HP dv6710ea, which comes with a 250GB Harddrive. I have checked this both on the HP website, and via Device Manager. Under disk Drives it says I have Samsung HM250JI ATA Device.

Yet when I look both through My Computer and Easus Partition Manager it shows two partitions; C: - 221.28 GB and D: (HP Recovery) - 11.61 GB.

That adds up to 232.89GB. So my question is; where is the other 17.11GB?

Easus doesn't even show unallocated space...

If this should be in hardware problems I apologise.

Nick

 

Maybe this will help..?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=167983

 

That is about right. 250 is a marketing ploy. My 250 GB drive in my Asus...

 

Did not even know that existed.

 

Oh sorry for not searching the forum first! My bad!

Thanks to both of you though

Merry xmas


EDIT:
I have now had a little nosey around vssadmin via the command prompt (in admin mode) and using the vssadmin list shadowstoreage command uncovered the dastardly perpetrator! But I shall let him rest in peace, because I have plenty of storage anyway.
( http://www.realtime-vista.com/command_line_tools/2007/07/vssadmin_working_with_volume_s.htm)

 

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