More memory in utilised after formatting.

[Tamilanban]

I have 75 GB Hard disk.I formatted the same once,but after formatting,my memory free space is only 11GB,whereas before formatting I had more than 45 GB.I physically checked all the files in differnet folders,but no folder is of this 30 GB capacity.How to over come the same.It's Lenova Laptop.

 

[compulsivebuilder]

How did you format the drive (what command, what parameters)?

It is possible, although highly unlikely, that a low-level format found a large number of bad sectors and mapped them out. I really doubt that happened.

Normally, when you format a drive, it is completely empty afterwards. If you had a drive with 45GB free and 30GB used, after formatting I'd expect to see 75GB free and 0 used. You talk of checking files in different folders - I would not expect to see folders on a freshly formatted drive. How did those folders get there?