Re: Missing hard drive space

Don't be concerned:-)

The figures you see are "approximate" at best & some are downright 
misleading.

First of all the real capacity of the drive is *never* as high as the 
nominal designation suggests because of manufcturing variable and
formatting 
requirements - I have a "160 GB" that only formats to 154 GB usable.

Second, of what is physically available the OS "reserves" a certain
****tion 
for virtual memory & swap disk space, so that isn't actually available to 
the user.

Finally, there isn't a hard drive in the world that *doesn't* have bad 
sectors - this relates back to my first point. It's simply the nture of
the 
beast. In fact, if you only have 16K worth you're darned lucky:-) That's a

part of the OS' responsibility when the drive is formatted - to recognize 
the bad areas & flag them so it doesn't attempt to write to them later.
-- 
HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"angel weekes" <angelweekes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:B7533695-68B0-4E9B-A6AF-7F4F3ACBF4C8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi I have just noticed that i am missing about 5 GB in hard drive space.

> My
> computer hard drive has 34 Gb in space when I look at my computer it
says
> that I am using 9 GB but I only see about 4 Gb in use. I have used 
> defragment
> and disk scan and clicked the 2 boxes for it to recovery bad sectors. At

> the
> end of the scan it says that I hace 16 KB in bad clusters, is this the 
> reason
> why I am missing space on my hard drive. If so how can I repair it.
> Thanks for any help.