FREE HARD DRIVE SPACE KEEPS GETTIN SMALLER EVEYTIME I TURN ON MY LAPTOP

[SL1.]

Hi people..

I just got my 160gb Sony VAIO FZ21E Laptop for christmas.

Since I've had the laptop my HDD space seems to be getting smaller everytime i turn the laptop on. It started on about 138gb of free space, and today (28th December 07) I seem to only have 97.1gb of free space left. I have even deleted some of the pre-installed crap on the laptop, also MS Office 2007 trial. Only things i have added to my laptop is Avg free anti-virus, BitComet, and one download which is 700mb.

Can anyone help me out on why this is happening, and what to do?

And also, could you tell me other pre-installed software is okay to remove?


Many Thanks.

[Blencogo]

Hi SL1. and welcome to Club Vaio.

Your hard disc has 160,000,000,000 bytes capacity.

Your computer's operating system cannot count properly, Windows counts in Binary (everything to the base of 2)

Because Windows uses the binary system, the nearest it can get to 1,000 bytes (a kilobyte) is 1,024 bytes - calculated as two to the power ten (2^10=1024). So it uses 1024 bytes of your storage to count a kilobyte. Similarly, it counts 1,024 KB as 1MB and 1,024MB to get 1GB. This means your operating system is counting 1,073,741,824 bytes (2^30=1073741824) of your storage as 1 GB. Windows measures your 160GB drive as only 149GB.


Go to:

Control Panel -> Administrative Tasks -> Computer Management -> Disc Management

to see what capacity you have and how much is used.

You will probably find a Recovery Partition of about 7.5GB and drive C:\ capacity of about 141.5GB.