Thread: Missing Memory...?

So I have been cleaning my HD and found that 55 GB are unaccounted for on my C:. This is on Vista. Does the properties on C: take hidden files into account? I thought it did and this boggles my mind.

Let me put it this way:
- C: says 207 GB used up
- I select all files on C: and check size to be 152

So.. where's the other 55..?

Any ideas..?

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I think if you have a regular user account, it will not take into account the system files. I noticed this on my work XP laptop as well.

probably the system restore (or shadow copy, or whatever they call it now)

Or the registry and such.

I don't know where the data is, but unnessesary data are accumulating each and every day.

If you have 207 GB used up this program should free some space up.

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

It's likely system restore, hibernation, shadow copy, etc like Ynot said. I regularly bounce around between 65-85GB free on my C: drive.

If you have 207 GB used up this program should free some space up.

I have 994 GB used up.

But I have about a total of 1.4TB of hard drive space so I'm still fine.

System restore (up to 15% of drive capacity) plus swap file will account for most of that. Any remainder is just other system files and other users' files that you don't have access to. Nothing to do with GB/GiB since Windows is consistent in that area. (More on that.)

Originally Posted by Stalker

System restore (up to 15% of drive capacity) plus swap file will account for most of that. Any remainder is just other system files and other users' files that you don't have access to. Nothing to do with GB/GiB since Windows is consistent in that area. (More on that.)

Actually, when you buy a drive, it is labeled with MiB/GiB, so if you have a 1 TB drive, it's actually 1 TiB, but sold to you as 1 TB, and accounted in most OSs as less than 1 TB.