I lost 3.8 gigs!

[Impalaman96]

:Q Can anyone tell me why my 13 gig HD that came eith my machine only has 9.2 gigs free, right out of the box? I know the OS and other junky programs bundled on it don't use that much space. Cheers!!!

 

[DJSnairdA]

Try formatting the HDD.. and then check. If it's straight out of the box.. maybe the HDD is stuffed..

 

[Agamar]

There is a limitation on some operating systems at 9+gig, I think if you are running Win98se it should see all of it with the latest bios for your motherboard. Give us some specs.

 

[MrCraphead]

could it be with your FAT partitioning? Are you running FAT16 or FAT32? I believe FAT32 saves you more disk space by having smaller clusters. correct me if I'm wrong.....

 

[AMB]

You could have a look it FDISK to see whether the primary partition is using 100% of its space

 

[oldfart]

Impalaman96, some mfgrs like Dell will put a hidden partition on the drive with a backup image for system restoration. That may be where the space has gone.