500GB hard drive

[Sakic97]

Sorry if this is stupid question,
i have 500 gb hdd and on my local disk c it says only 190 gb,what is the problem?

 

[Curiousaboutpc]

Its 190Gb free of 500gb

 

[Sakic97]

Its 190Gb free of 500gb

No,there is only 190 gb? 67gb is free of 190gb

 

[Curiousaboutpc]

it may be at the time of installing windows you made partition of 190gb as C at left left free

 

[junkeymonkey]

is this a new drive with a fresh install? or is it a 500gb drive that's got 190gb free after its been used awhile ?

 

[Sakic97]

is this a new drive with a fresh install? or is it a 500gb drive that's got 190gb free after its been used awhile ?

it is an old one,but its like that since install it

 

[firo40]

Im guessing it wasnt formatted correctly when windows was installed.

 

[junkeymonkey]

well if the partition was made and you did not catch it may be the cause but you should see that in your disk management if there are more then one on the disk. also if windows was allowed to do this when it was fresh installed it will a lot x-amount of drive space for its self and it may have glitch and took way too much on it own [I have seen this] most time s it takes about 32gb. but when you do a fresh install on a new drive and you want all the drive space you can get you got to set up the partition to the size of the drive that's stated during preinstall and that can keep windows to around 19gb and the rest is yours..

I hope I said this right..