External hard drive question

geekster32

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Jul 11, 2014
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I removed hard drive from old laptop (dead), hooked it up to new laptop from the USB port.

Under My Computer, it says 28gb free of 320gb for it.

When I open the drive and select all (CRT + A), it says total file size is 19gb....

I am backing everything up before reformatting but want to be sure I have everything. Where is the other 270gb or so???

Do I need to hook up this on an admin account so I could have permission to view more things?

Thanks all