Hi all.
I just did a recent custom system build with Windows 8 Professional.
I used a Samsung Solid State Drive to install the OS on; it's a 250GB SSD.
With Win 8, during the install procedure, doesn't 350MB become "System Reserved? That can't be touched, right?
Anyway......
There's something with my SSD's numbers that just aren't adding up.
If I go to My Computer and open it to look at my "C" drive, it reads these numbers:
154GB free of232GB
OK, first: If my SSD is rated at 250GB (and 350 - mega, not giga - bytes were allocated for "System Reserve"), how did it drop from 250GB down to a total size of 232GB?? That's roughly somewhere between 17 and 18GB!! Where did it go?!?!
Alright, so let's say it is a total size now of 232GB.
Like I mentioned above, the "C" drive reads: 154GB free of 232GB
232 minus 154 equals 78GB; meaning, all that I've installed so far besides the OS, my various programs I've installed, pictures, videos, etc., takes up 78GB's of space out of the 232GB, right?
But nope, something's still not adding up.
I opened my "C" drive and checked the size of each folder and how much space it's taking up on the disk. I even chose the folder option of "Show Hidden Files & Folders".
I right-click on each folder in the "C" drive, click Properties, and make note of the size.
The ones that take of the biggest amounts of space are:
Program Files
Program Files (x86)
Users
Windows
These four folders added together show a total size on disk of 40.81GB.
There are some other folders in my "C" drive that also take up space, but, not even adding up to one gig; they're folders like ProgramData, FRAPS, Hauppauge.......
The total for these other folders is 678.19MB.....that's mega, not giga.
So, according to what I see on my "C" drive, it's 40.81GB, and then some others coming to 678.19MB; altogether, that's about 41GB, correct?
Sooooooooo......if the claim is that my "C" drive is 232GB, and I'm using about 41GB, that's 232 minus 41 equals 191GB.
So why doesn't my "C" drive read:
191GB free of 232GB?
Why is it reading 154GB free of 232GB?!
Why all of these discrepancies in readings?
It's a 250GB SSD.....but reading a total size of 232GB?!
And out of those 232GB's, it claims there's 154GB free, meaning, I've used 78GB?! But when I check each individual folder's properties, I'm calculating that it's taking up about 41GB on the disk. That should be about 191GB free.
Can anybody shed some light on this for me? Am I missing something here? Is there something hidden that I don't know about?
Thanks for any info or help.
Pez
I just did a recent custom system build with Windows 8 Professional.
I used a Samsung Solid State Drive to install the OS on; it's a 250GB SSD.
With Win 8, during the install procedure, doesn't 350MB become "System Reserved? That can't be touched, right?
Anyway......
There's something with my SSD's numbers that just aren't adding up.
If I go to My Computer and open it to look at my "C" drive, it reads these numbers:
154GB free of232GB
OK, first: If my SSD is rated at 250GB (and 350 - mega, not giga - bytes were allocated for "System Reserve"), how did it drop from 250GB down to a total size of 232GB?? That's roughly somewhere between 17 and 18GB!! Where did it go?!?!
Alright, so let's say it is a total size now of 232GB.
Like I mentioned above, the "C" drive reads: 154GB free of 232GB
232 minus 154 equals 78GB; meaning, all that I've installed so far besides the OS, my various programs I've installed, pictures, videos, etc., takes up 78GB's of space out of the 232GB, right?
But nope, something's still not adding up.
I opened my "C" drive and checked the size of each folder and how much space it's taking up on the disk. I even chose the folder option of "Show Hidden Files & Folders".
I right-click on each folder in the "C" drive, click Properties, and make note of the size.
The ones that take of the biggest amounts of space are:
Program Files
Program Files (x86)
Users
Windows
These four folders added together show a total size on disk of 40.81GB.
There are some other folders in my "C" drive that also take up space, but, not even adding up to one gig; they're folders like ProgramData, FRAPS, Hauppauge.......
The total for these other folders is 678.19MB.....that's mega, not giga.
So, according to what I see on my "C" drive, it's 40.81GB, and then some others coming to 678.19MB; altogether, that's about 41GB, correct?
Sooooooooo......if the claim is that my "C" drive is 232GB, and I'm using about 41GB, that's 232 minus 41 equals 191GB.
So why doesn't my "C" drive read:
191GB free of 232GB?
Why is it reading 154GB free of 232GB?!
Why all of these discrepancies in readings?
It's a 250GB SSD.....but reading a total size of 232GB?!
And out of those 232GB's, it claims there's 154GB free, meaning, I've used 78GB?! But when I check each individual folder's properties, I'm calculating that it's taking up about 41GB on the disk. That should be about 191GB free.
Can anybody shed some light on this for me? Am I missing something here? Is there something hidden that I don't know about?
Thanks for any info or help.
Pez