Vista miscalculating 5gigs(ish) on every harddrive

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S31Ender

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Hi guys, I've got a curious one for you.

On every harddrive (and every partition) I have a situation like this.

160gig hard drive formatted NTFS of course is actually only 149 gb. That's not the issue.



The issue is

Total HDD space is 149GB

Used HDD Space is 143GB
Free HDD space is 5.97GB
----------------------------------
148.97GB Total, call it 149.



So.....everything seems to add up right?

NO.

When I go into my drive, highlight everything and pull the statistics, the read like this
Used Space 136 GB (146,984,673,045 bytes)

136 is NOT 143..........

EVERY hard drive is like this on my system....somewhere between 5-7 gigs "missing".

Any ideas?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self built
    CPU
    Core2Duo E6600 (2.4ghz overcloced to 3ghz)
    Motherboard
    Abit AW9D
    Memory
    OCZ Fatal1ty DDR2 PC2-6400 800mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus TOP Edition Nvidia 8800GTS (G92) 512mb
    Sound Card
    AudioMAX HD 7.1 CH
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19"SamsungSyncMaster906BW LCD**17"SonyTrinitronA200 CRT
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900 and 1152x864
    Hard Drives
    System:250GB WD Caviar WD2500YS
    Storage:1TB WD Caviar Green WD10EACS
    Portable:1TB WD Mybook
    Workfile:160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6V160EO
    PSU
    Ultra X-Finity 600W ULT31848
    Case
    Aerocool Spiral Galaxies (It sounds dumb but it's good)
    Cooling
    Stock CPU Heatsink. 120mm fans(1front1back) one 80MM fan.
    Keyboard
    Logitech MX3000 (got rid of the mouse)
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Internet Speed
    DSL 3.0mbps down 768kbps up.
    Other Info
    My first build! December 2006. In total over the course of two years it's run me about 1600 bucks. The initial 1300 when building, and then some upgrades.
S31Ender said:
Hi guys, I've got a curious one for you.

On every harddrive (and every partition) I have a situation like this.

160gig hard drive formatted NTFS of course is actually only 149 gb. That's not the issue.



The issue is

Total HDD space is 149GB

Used HDD Space is 143GB
Free HDD space is 5.97GB
----------------------------------
148.97GB Total, call it 149.



So.....everything seems to add up right?

NO.

When I go into my drive, highlight everything and pull the statistics, the read like this
Used Space 136 GB (146,984,673,045 bytes)

136 is NOT 143..........

EVERY hard drive is like this on my system....somewhere between 5-7 gigs "missing".

Any ideas?
Click to expand...

Your page file might using that space...

Open explorer, click on tool, folder options, view, click show hidden files radio button and uncheck hide protected operating system files. and give ok.

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Then you will find pagefile.sys is present on every drive and the size will be equal to the missing size...
 
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My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Wipro
    Motherboard
    Intel dq35j0
    Memory
    8 Gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    inter express chipset
    Sound Card
    Realtek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Wipro
    Screen Resolution
    1024*768
    Hard Drives
    500 gb
    Keyboard
    DELL
    Mouse
    Dell
    Internet Speed
    100 mbps(office lan)
You hit it right on the head. That's what was causing it.

It was driving me NUTS! lmao.

My system carries 4 gigs of ram, and when I looked into the pagefile statistics, it listed my total pagefile across all drives as almost 23gigs............*cough*.
A quick little bit of fiddling and I'm all set now.


Thanks guys!
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self built
    CPU
    Core2Duo E6600 (2.4ghz overcloced to 3ghz)
    Motherboard
    Abit AW9D
    Memory
    OCZ Fatal1ty DDR2 PC2-6400 800mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus TOP Edition Nvidia 8800GTS (G92) 512mb
    Sound Card
    AudioMAX HD 7.1 CH
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19"SamsungSyncMaster906BW LCD**17"SonyTrinitronA200 CRT
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900 and 1152x864
    Hard Drives
    System:250GB WD Caviar WD2500YS
    Storage:1TB WD Caviar Green WD10EACS
    Portable:1TB WD Mybook
    Workfile:160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6V160EO
    PSU
    Ultra X-Finity 600W ULT31848
    Case
    Aerocool Spiral Galaxies (It sounds dumb but it's good)
    Cooling
    Stock CPU Heatsink. 120mm fans(1front1back) one 80MM fan.
    Keyboard
    Logitech MX3000 (got rid of the mouse)
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Internet Speed
    DSL 3.0mbps down 768kbps up.
    Other Info
    My first build! December 2006. In total over the course of two years it's run me about 1600 bucks. The initial 1300 when building, and then some upgrades.
S31Ender said:
You hit it right on the head. That's what was causing it.

It was driving me NUTS! lmao.

My system carries 4 gigs of ram, and when I looked into the pagefile statistics, it listed my total pagefile across all drives as almost 23gigs............*cough*.
A quick little bit of fiddling and I'm all set now.


Thanks guys!
Click to expand...

You welcome :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Wipro
    Motherboard
    Intel dq35j0
    Memory
    8 Gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    inter express chipset
    Sound Card
    Realtek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Wipro
    Screen Resolution
    1024*768
    Hard Drives
    500 gb
    Keyboard
    DELL
    Mouse
    Dell
    Internet Speed
    100 mbps(office lan)
Also note that a 160GB drive will not be 160GB when formatted.
You have the MBR and also file index(not the same as vista).
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    I5 3570K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z77-DS3H
    Memory
    4 x 4GB corsair ballistix sport DDR3 1600 Mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660 TI
    Sound Card
    creative x-fi
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Primary CiBox 22" Widescreen LCD ,Secondary Dell 22" Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    Both 1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500G HD (SATA) 1 x 2TB USB
    PSU
    Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Complient PSU
    Case
    Antec 900 Ultimate Gaming Case
    Cooling
    3 x 80mm tri led front, 120mm side 120mm back, 200mm top
    Keyboard
    Logik
    Mouse
    Technika TKOPTM2
    Internet Speed
    288 / 4000
    Other Info
    Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
    Trust Graphics Tablet
Yeah, I did know that.

The 160 gig drives work out to be something like 149 gigs.
At least that's how mine was.



For some reason Vista had my pagefiles set to 6 gigs PER DRIVE........huh?
I changed that :). No reason to pagefile 6 gigs on a 149 gig storage drive with just some video and documents on it that I barely go into.
But it did it to my system partition(good), it did it to my XP partition!(Bad), did it to my workfile partition(meh), my storage drive,and both my 1 tb backup/storage drives......

sigh.


Oh by the way Delphin, your avatar rocks. I was staring at it for a solid 4 mins........
kinda reminds me of those keychains, "Want to know how to amuse a stupid person? Turn this over." *turn* "Want to know how to amuse a stupid person? Turn this over" *turn* "Want to know......." hehe
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self built
    CPU
    Core2Duo E6600 (2.4ghz overcloced to 3ghz)
    Motherboard
    Abit AW9D
    Memory
    OCZ Fatal1ty DDR2 PC2-6400 800mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus TOP Edition Nvidia 8800GTS (G92) 512mb
    Sound Card
    AudioMAX HD 7.1 CH
    Monitor(s) Displays
    19"SamsungSyncMaster906BW LCD**17"SonyTrinitronA200 CRT
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900 and 1152x864
    Hard Drives
    System:250GB WD Caviar WD2500YS
    Storage:1TB WD Caviar Green WD10EACS
    Portable:1TB WD Mybook
    Workfile:160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6V160EO
    PSU
    Ultra X-Finity 600W ULT31848
    Case
    Aerocool Spiral Galaxies (It sounds dumb but it's good)
    Cooling
    Stock CPU Heatsink. 120mm fans(1front1back) one 80MM fan.
    Keyboard
    Logitech MX3000 (got rid of the mouse)
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Internet Speed
    DSL 3.0mbps down 768kbps up.
    Other Info
    My first build! December 2006. In total over the course of two years it's run me about 1600 bucks. The initial 1300 when building, and then some upgrades.
Delphin turns from a right-handed slapper, to a left-handed slapper. Guess that's just what happens when you go thru a mirror, huh?

It is mesmerizing.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700
    Motherboard
    Intel DX975XBX2
    Memory
    4 X 2GB Corsair PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    2 X ATI Radeon HD 2600XT
    Hard Drives
    2 X 2 X 500Gb RAID 0
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