On my newly self built computer I have looked at the properties of my system disk. It’s showing:
used space 46.9 GB
free space 884 GB
Capacity 931 GB
However when I run a space analyser, called WinDirStat, it shows me that the folders and files on the disk total only 16.0 GB.
Why such a huge difference?
Just curiosity, really. I’m not short of space. It’s not a big problem … I hope.
Big_B
July 4, 2015, 4:33am
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Formatting is part of it. The other is how drive manufacturers denote a gigabyte. The technical definition is 1024 MB, but quite commonly manufacturers use 1 GB as equal to 1000 MB. That’s going to add up in the terabyte range.
On my newly self built computer I have looked at the properties of my system disk. It’s showing:
used space 46.9 GB
free space 884 GB
Capacity 931 GB
However when I run a space analyser, called WinDirStat, it shows me that the folders and files on the disk total only 16.0 GB.
Why such a huge difference?
Just curiosity, really. I’m not short of space. It’s not a big problem … I hope.
Probably hidden files, like old Windows restore points, take up some space. Try Windows disk cleanup, start and cleanmgr.msc