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Question

Why a drive showing less free space than the actual?

Jun 21, 2011 2:37AM PDT

One of the hard disk of my PC of 60 GB showing total size 58.5 GB and the free space 13.1 GB.But when explored by the disk explorer of AVC-3 it shows that the occupied space is not more than 37 GB under any circumstance.Now my question is why is this difference? Where this 9GB is being used?How this pseudo used space can be identified and how it can be recovered?

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Widely discussed.
Jun 21, 2011 6:09AM PDT

A 60 GB drive is usually 60 BILLION BYTES so try converting that to BINARY GIGABYTES and you discover there is no loss. Widely discussed so my answers are rarely as good as the better answers.
Bob

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Re: disc space
Jun 25, 2011 12:30AM PDT

I don't know what the disk explorer of AVC-3 is. But are you sure it includes the System Volume Information folder? That's where System Restore saves its data. That could account for a large part of that 9 GB.

Kees