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Missing Hard Drive Space?

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July 19, 2013 2:14:36 AM

This seems to be an unlogical problem but it is real!

I am new in this eventhough I am pretty known in the CPU+GPU hardware (show off :lol: ).

So just a or two weeks (I believe) ago I built a secondary PC consisting of these hardware. I Do not want to go above $250 for this one so I just pretty much cheap out parts :p .

A4-5300
Biostar Hifi A55S3
Apacer 4GB 10600 PCDDR3 Memory
LG DVD-RW
WD 160GB
eXtreme 500W PSU
And just some no-name branded Case :lol: 

The build cost $220 with speaker+mouse+keyboard it is about $250.

However the problem is indeed very very strange! I am sure the HDD has 160GB of space in it, it is clearly written on the label. But When I installed windows, I take the partition on to 3 drives which are 50, 50 and 60GB...

But then after I booted off windows normally (installation is successful without any problem) I saw only C and D drives which are both ~48.8GB in capacity? I don't see the E drive which is supposed to be ~60GB! That means I lost 60GB of space??!!

So any answer guys? This is just totally horrorific!

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a b G Storage
July 19, 2013 2:34:14 AM

Pilot error.. you did it wrong...
Go to the storage management consol and see what you have and see where you F*#ked up ;) 

Cheers
P.S. 160GB drive - you wont get 160GB.. PC will report at about 149GB. (google it of you want understand why),
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a c 133 G Storage
July 19, 2013 3:36:35 AM

2^10 vs 10^3.

You most likely didn't format your 60GB partition properly.
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July 19, 2013 8:13:39 PM

Yeah my partition seems to not go correctly thank you :) .

I knew about 10^3 vs 2^10 on hard drives...
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