Acer Aspire 7736Z-4809 Hard Drive Capacity

Dhruva K

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I got an Acer Aspire 7736Z-4809 from my dad a few years back as a hand-me-down. The advertised capacity of the hard drive is 320 GB. However, when I open "My computer", the sum of the capacities of the two partitions (C: and D: ) sums 286 GB (143 GB each).

I realize that there is some "loss" of space due to the different nomenclature (base two vs base ten). But I'm pretty sure it doesn't equate to a nearly 11% loss. According to information I read elsewhere, I should still have 297 GB of "real" space (for a 320-gig drive). Where are my other 11 gigs?

 
Solution
theres probably a hidden recovery partition

normally acer do C drive then D drive named as data

and hidden recovery

if you go to disk management you will probably see a 15gb to 20gb recovery partition

babytech215

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You can try backing up the extra partition and deleting it and starting over. I say this cause I had a similar issue and that's how I handled it. Mainly so I can tell what's going on with my computer, I started over.