Normally, it takes up several GBs. You can also disable the system hibernation. In fact, although you find what occupying the missing space, you cannot do much about these files. They are important to system running. Of course, above files are not the whole possible factors caused missing space on hard drive in Windows 10, 8, 7, XP and Vista. According to the above possible causes, you can try the following methods to check if the missing space can come back to make a full disk space. Usually, when you install Windows OS on a brannd new hard drive, it will create hidden partitions OEM partition, recovery partition, and Microsoft reserved partition.
Although you can see them in Disk Management , but you cannot view the inside files. Although System protection can create and save information about your computer's system files and settings, it could take up a lot of space and lead to your hard drive missing. Thus, you can disable this feature to restore the occupied space. Every time when the computer enters into Hibernation Mode, the hidden files systems hibernate file will be created by the operating system.
The size of this file is half of the RAM space. Except for aforementioned factors, unallocated space is also a potential factor for missing disk space. All you got in Windows Explorer is the previous GB stuff. Under this situation, you can create a new partition from the unallocated space to restore the missing space on the hard drive. To finish this, the Windows inbuilt Disk Management is enough. Namely, the unallocated space can only used to extend the partition adjacent to and in front of it.
What if you want to extend another non-adjacent partition with unallocated space? Free download it and have a try. Cancel Submit. Gerry C J Cornell. Please advise how this alters your figures. Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. This site in other languages x. Explorer shows that this drive has a usable capacity of 2. The drive has no partitions or hidden files but when I add up the space taken by all of the folders and files Explorer shows just under GB of space used.
What might be the explanation for only GB of free space being shown when in fact there should be something like 2. Are you troubled by the same case? If the answer is yes, you are lucky. You can find 6 possible causes and corresponding solutions. Now, find out what's taking up space and why space is missing. To find out the missing storage on the hard disk drive or SSD, we need to first figure out what occupies the missing space.
In general, there about 6 situations that cause windows missing space on the hard drive. However, when checking the capacity of the newly bought hard disk in Windows Disk Management or by adding space of each drive, we may find the real disk size is always smaller than those manufacturers advertise. What's the reason? Where is the missing space? Therefore a GB hard disk for manufacturers is just GB for user.
Most computers and laptops come with the hidden partition, such as OEM partition, recovery partition, and Microsoft reserved partition. You can see hidden partitions in Disk Management, or delete OEM partition if you have backed up the system. System protection is a feature that regularly creates and saves information about your computer's system files and settings.
It creates restore points just before significant system events, for example, install a program or device driver. If the restore points set to half the drive capacity, much space will be taken. Check the "System Volume Information" folder to view the data. A newly bought hard disk cannot be used to save data unless we partition it.
To be specific, we need to create partitions on the disk. Only partitioned space can be visible in Windows Explorer, but we can see unpartitioned space or unallocated space in Disk Management. Although you have found what occupies the missing space, you may want to know the way to recover the missing space and get the real capacity of your hard drive.
Both hibernate file hiberfil. The size of this file is half of the RAM space. You can see them when you enter "Folder Options" and then uncheck "Hide protected operating system files".
A cluster is the smallest logical amount of disk space. One cluster can only hold the content of one file. If a file is 3 times larger than the cluster size of the partition, it will occupy 3 clusters. When we are viewing how much space our files are taking up, we may find a strange situation where real file size is 8. The occupied disk space is always larger than real file size if this partition saves small files. Fortunately, we can make them take up less space by decreasing cluster size. Now that you have figured out what's taking up your HDD space and why space is missing, you can follow the 6 solutions below to make the hard disk shows its full capacity and regain the missing space.
When you install Windows OS on a never used hard disk, hidden partitions will also be created by default. All these hidden partitions will not be shown in Windows Explorer. They can be shown in Disk Management.
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