Hi, so I when I got my PC, I realized that my HDD was partitioned into a storage (C) Drive, and a recovery (D) Drive. The C: drive is 438 GB, and the D: drive is 26.3 GB. This adds up to about 464.3 GB, but my total hard drive space is 500GB, where did the rest go!?
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talktoarnab
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Was you OS pre-installed? In that case its the hidden OEM partition for recovery and stuff like that.
MauveCloud
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Decimal GB vs. binary GB. HDD manufacturers quote capacity in decimal GB (where 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) and often they round up, but Windows shows capacity in binary GB (where 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes, which is 2 to the 30th power). 500,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 = 465.66. There may be a gigabyte or two in a hidden recovery partition as well.
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