Hard drive only showing 127Gb and it's a 160GB?

[windowcleaner]

This is my first post. Can anyone tell me how to recover the missing 33ish Gb's please. Many thanks, Terry.

[Alan2273]

Are you running service pack 2?.

To find out, click start/right click my computer/click properties/and look at the information in the box.

[-pops-]

Hard drive manufacturers describe a Megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes. Windows sees a Megabyte as 1,048,576 bytes (the "true" binary concept). Similarly drive makers define a Gigabyte as 1,000 Megabytes and Windows sees it as 1024 Megabytes.That accounts for part of the apparent loss.

Also, formatting a drive takes up space on it and accounts for the remainder.

Don't worry about it - you haven't been cheated out of your drive space - all drives are the same in this.

[AlanHo]

I have a Dell laptop which also shows a shortage in hard drive capacity.

However - Dell have placed a hidden partition on the drive which does not show up in Explorer - presumably for the recovery software.

[Alexis Blaze]

Hard drive manufacturers describe a Megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes. Windows sees a Megabyte as 1,048,576 bytes (the "true" binary concept). Similarly drive makers define a Gigabyte as 1,000 Megabytes and Windows sees it as 1024 Megabytes.That accounts for part of the apparent loss.

Also, formatting a drive takes up space on it and accounts for the remainder.

Don't worry about it - you haven't been cheated out of your drive space - all drives are the same in this.

well... that is true... but it's not supposed to lost that much... a 150GB will only lost about 10 GB... as a comparison... i have a 250GB HD and it actual size is 232.88 GB....

look at the jumper position on your hard drive, maybe you put it on the position 'limit hard drive to blablabla'... or look at diskmgmt.msc and see if there is any other partition or a mistake at formatting...