My brand new hard drive that I have installed in my computer is saying that I have 24 gigabytes left even though it is a 1tb hard drive. I think the reason for this is because when I was putting windows 7 on the new build I gave the operating system 25 gigs to work with but now I only have 25 gigs to use. How do I solve this problem?
Hard Drive showing wrong amount of storage
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- Sep 7, 2013
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"I gave the operating system 25 gigs to work with"
I assume you mean you asked Windows Setup to create a partition of 25GB capacity -- right?
That means you have a considerable amount of "unallocated" space left on the drive (approx 900GB >).
You should see it in Windows 'Disk Management'.
Just right-click on it & choose "create new simple volume" and wait a few seconds for it to complete.
Then right-click on it again and choose "Format".
When that's done, you'll see a new drive letter in Windows Explorer. That's the new partition ready to use for storage.
I assume you mean you asked Windows Setup to create a partition of 25GB capacity -- right?
That means you have a considerable amount of "unallocated" space left on the drive (approx 900GB >).
You should see it in Windows 'Disk Management'.
Just right-click on it & choose "create new simple volume" and wait a few seconds for it to complete.
Then right-click on it again and choose "Format".
When that's done, you'll see a new drive letter in Windows Explorer. That's the new partition ready to use for storage.
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As long as he/she installs games, applications & user account data on the larger partition it will be fine. I've got literally everything installed on my Windows 7 partition, loads of large applications including Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom, MS Office etc & most of the Toshiba factory utilities ----- total used space 27GB.
So without all those big apps or factory bloatware installed in Windows, 25GB should be okay in my book.
Not ideal I'll grant you, but not a worrying point either if alternative storage space is available (which it is).
- Mar 16, 2013
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Very true, but future updates will mess this up.
I have Win 10 on a 32GB ASUS Transformer. No games, and a very few small applications. No Restore Points.
It has about 26GB used space.
There is a secondary 64GB SD card for other stuff.
I can't run the current Win 10 November update, due to not enough free space. It requires 8GB free.
I'm going to have to go in and remove a bunch of previous updates out of the Installer folder.
My Win 7 partitions, on other PC's, take up around 40GB after all the current updates are run.
It can be done smaller, but it takes a lot of space management.
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The OP says it's Windows 7 -- auto updates can be disabled (which I have always done anyway without any adverse effects, but always keep a multi-layered, two-way firewall installed.
I also keep SR disabled too. Waste of space in more ways than one. Prefer the security of a disk image on 3 external hard drives.
I also keep SR disabled too. Waste of space in more ways than one. Prefer the security of a disk image on 3 external hard drives.
- Mar 16, 2013
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I think the main difference in our space sizes is the /Users/ folder.
You have it on another drive.
I have autoupdates off as well (or at least as much as can be done in Win 10).
But...to do it when I want, I'm going to have to find some space on that little thing.
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"I think the main difference in our space sizes is the /Users/ folder.
You have it on another drive".
Indeed I do, I've always saved my data on external drives only, in triplicate (3 externals).
That allows for faster disk image creation & image restore, less data to defrag on the internal drive etc.
I do the same for my wife's laptop too, for exactly the same reasons.
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You have it on another drive".
Indeed I do, I've always saved my data on external drives only, in triplicate (3 externals).
That allows for faster disk image creation & image restore, less data to defrag on the internal drive etc.
I do the same for my wife's laptop too, for exactly the same reasons.
Cheers
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