I have an old PC with an 80 GB hard drive. About a week ago, I noticed that when I click on "My Computer/Local Disk" that "Total Capacity" now reads 74.5 GB (whereas before it always read 80GB). I did a disk defrag thinking that would solve the issue, but it did not. With such a small hard drive, I could REALLY use the extra 5GB of space. Any ideas would be appreciated! Ron
hey ron i had the same problem. sometimes the hard disk space can become invisible as unused disk space . i created a new partition from the remaining i.e the invisible space. you can do it through windows formatting
When you format an 80GB you are never going to get 80GB of usable space. Some is used for File Allocation tables and other stuff the file system needs.
Also drive manufactures consider there to be 1000 bytes in a kilobyte whereas everyone else considers there to be 1024, including operating systems.
So they are always going to report less than 80GB. That's just the way it is.