64gb not 64gb??? Where did the storage go ???

[IslandFloydo]

Hi Guys and Gals...

where oh where did all the storage go? I have a new Asus Transformer Book T200. It comes with 64gb storage where the OS is located. I have installed a 1tb hdd in the dock.

the problem: the 64gb storage is indicating a capacity of 45gb. So, after windows did its updates, made recovery file, and i installed a few programs, moved the pagefil. to the hdd, etc... I am not left with much space (about 25%); however, this would not necessarily be the case if I could figure out where the first 19gb of space (capacity reading) went.

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any thoughts? I am sure there is other threads to this specific question, but everything I found kept referring back to the OS (windows?). Unless i am misunderstanding those answers/threads, then my question is new because windows shows up in my WinDirStat analysis.

So, where does 19gb of capacity go?

thank you in advance for your thoughts!!

ElFloydo

 

[Gracodana]

You never get the full amount that your promised, though that does seem a little harsh on the storage lost not sure how it comparse from my HDD to yours. out of 240gb I get 223

 

[Eximo]

There is likely a hidden recovery partition on there for wiping the machine to factory defaults.

Rather then move the swap file to the hard drive, you should just disable it when you have an SSD and 8GB or more of memory. Check your settings for hibernation, hyberfil.sys will use a portion of your disk equal to the size of your system memory.

 

[chris987]

windows restore eats up some gb, hibernate (can be disabled) and page file which depends on the amount of your ram installed!the higher your ram installed the higher the page file commited. it can be manually set to lower values, especially if your 64gb , which probably is, an ssd.!

 

[IslandFloydo]

There is likely a hidden recovery partition on there for wiping the machine to factory defaults.

Rather then move the swap file to the hard drive, you should just disable it when you have an SSD and 8GB or more of memory. Check your settings for hibernation, hyberfil.sys will use a portion of your disk equal to the size of your system memory.

this could make sense... as the windows file is about 19gb. (not that i would) but could this partition be recaptured for actual use by the owner of the device or is it somehow permanent?

SEE UPDATED ANSWER (FROM ME) BELOW.

 

[IslandFloydo]

windows restore eats up some gb, hibernate (can be disabled) and page file which depends on the amount of your ram installed!the higher your ram installed the higher the page file commited. it can be manually set to lower values, especially if your 64gb , which probably is, an ssd.!

all those scenarios are accounted for and can be seen by WinDirSat analysis. The 19gb that isn't seen by WinDirSat is what has me asking... it has taken the capacity to 45 gb (from 64gb) and is not visible even to WinDirSat.

??

 

[Eximo]

Launch diskpart from a command prompt and see what partitions it can see.

select disk 0

detail disk

should show something like this:

Diskpart> detail disk

Maxtor 90432D2
Disk ID: F549D151
Type : IDE
Bus : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F My RAID Set NTFS RAID-5 4096 MB Healthy
Volume 1 G FATSTRIPE FAT32 Stripe 6144 MB Healthy
Volume 2 H My Mirror NTFS Mirror 2048 MB Healthy
Volume 3 I My Span NTFS Spanned 9 GB Healthy


Were you to clone the OS to the other drive as a backup, you could wipe and reformat the SSD if there is a hidden partition on there and get your space back that way.

 

[IslandFloydo]

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AND THE ANSWER IS: Healthy Partitions.
This accounts for about 13gb, taking 45gb to 58gb, which is likely what the real capacity of the 64gb allows for.

SO THE NEW QUESTION IS:
What is best way to create a separate set of the "Healthy Partition Recovery File" **not on this drive** (either external or on the second hdd) that would allow me to wipe machine clean and reset it to factory settings... ?? There are THREE separate partitions in this answer... an EFI System Partition and TWO recovery partitions (one 450mb and one 12gb)??

 

[Eximo]

Small one is the boot loader probably for the recovery program. The other is the actual recovery image.

I would use Clonezilla myself. It is a free application you can put on a CD/DVD or a flash drive. You can use that to clone the whole disk, each partition, and install them if you choose.

I suggest taking a backup of the whole disk first. Then the individual partitions. Try just putting the 45GB volume on to the raw disk (it has options for increasing the partition size to the size of the disk) and see if that works.