i have a 100 gig hard drive , that windows only picks up 93.1 gigs, how can i get the missing 6.9 gig's back ?

Answer 1

That 6.9 Gb is used to store the drive's low-level and high-level formatting information, so you can't use it for anything else. Windows has not made a mistake: you do genuinely have 93.1 Gb free, and that's perfectly normal.

Answer 2

100GB is the unformatted capacity of your Hard Drive. Available HDD space will decrease after formatting. The amount of free space left is dependent upon the filing system used. The 6.9GB are not missing, they are still there but that amount of space is being used by the filing system.

Imagine your HDD as a very large library. You can fill it all with books but you are going to have to have a very hard time finding the book you want. That's why the library has a filing system where it has information where the books are. Same goes to your HDD. A portion of it is used for the filing system.

Answer 3

When you partition and format a hard drive you always lose space. It seems like you lose more now with larger drives. Also, you may have a second partition that is your recovery partition. So if you have just one hard drive in your computer, you need to check what all the partitions are and add them up. So check C:, D:, etc. E: will likely be your DVD or CD drive and if you have more drives, they are probably from a memory card reader.

Answer 4

You can't. Hard drive manufactures use a different formula for determining gigabyte then Microsoft does. That is why your hard drive is reported as being smaller inside of windows. Hard drive manufacturers see 1 GB as being 1,000,000,000 bytes while Windows see 1 GB as being 1,073,741,824 bytes, hence the missing disk space. The rest of these answers are incorrect guesses.

Answer 5

hi,
In the computer 100 gb Hard disk it 93.1 are some time it 90 gb it default. because we calculate the one kb = 1020 bite so in that case we add the 20 bite extra.
another thing when you format that time some are Partition take that time some gb can hide.
if you want to check right click on my computer go to manage and disk management there you see you partition and you hard disk space.

Answer 6

This is your recovery partition. It stores the files that are necessary to restore your system in case of system failure. Stop being greedy, lol! Why do you need every bit of your 100g hard drive already. Now you can delete that partition if you right-click on My Computer, Click Manage, Click disk management, right-click on the "recovery partition" and click Delete... voila. You've now opened up that space on your hard drive. Hope your computer never crashes and that you don't later need it!

Answer 7

you need a 3rd party partitioning software. I prefer Acronis Disk Director for tasks like that. It can resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without losing your data. Disk Director is easy in use and handy both for beginners and advanced users. In addition it has many useful features like Disk Editor that will allow you to perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive. Visit an Acronis site for more information:
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/

Answer 8

This is perfectly normal because there's only installed programs on your laptop and plus the missing gigs are used to back up data (system restore). You could possibly get more gigs back by right-clicking on your recycle bin icon on your desktop. Click properties>Global tab - change to 1 percent on the percent scale meter. > click ok. hope this helped.

Answer 9

The Hdd is correctly beacuse some of the hdd portion is being occupied by the cylinerals and clusters and other media of the hdd.

Answer 10

you can only use 93.1 gigs, ask the vendor why is the usable space less, they might have cheated you