NB: I'm using Windows 7.
Help Please:
When viewing my HDD drive in: Disk Manager
...it currently correctly shows that my [Disk 1] currently has 3 partitions.
1: But originally when I installed my 2TB HDD:
I initially formatted it with just 1 (partial) partition of 200 GB.
...& Windows automatically created drive (C) with 2 parts, eg:
System reserved: 100 MB
C: 195 GB
The operating system was installed into C:
And when I viewed the drive yesterday, via: [Start] < Computer
...it showed the C: drive as: 20.6 GB free of 195 GB
...so that means that nearly 175 GB has been used.
Yesterday:
I added another partition (of 1TB) (shown as the 3rd-E-Partiton)
& copied all of my data-files to it.
Today:
When I viewed the drive again, via: [Start] < Computer
...it showed the C: drive as: 16.6 GB free of 195 GB
...ie: 4 GB less than yesterday, yet I cant see how that amount of space could have been used.
I was intending to extend the size of the C-Partition,
but it seems that I cant now do this (since adding the 3rd-Partition)
because it seems that you can only extend-a-partition into adjacent/contiguous unallocated space.
So:
As I couldn't understand why so much of the C-Partition had been used up,
I decided to check-out the sizes of all the listed folder on this drive,
including the 'Hidden files & folders' & 'Hidden protected OS files'
Which total: 88 GB / SO WHERE are the reaming 107 GB ! (ie: 195-88=107 unaccounted for)
Many thank.
Help Please:
When viewing my HDD drive in: Disk Manager
...it currently correctly shows that my [Disk 1] currently has 3 partitions.
1: But originally when I installed my 2TB HDD:
I initially formatted it with just 1 (partial) partition of 200 GB.
...& Windows automatically created drive (C) with 2 parts, eg:
System reserved: 100 MB
C: 195 GB
The operating system was installed into C:
And when I viewed the drive yesterday, via: [Start] < Computer
...it showed the C: drive as: 20.6 GB free of 195 GB
...so that means that nearly 175 GB has been used.
Yesterday:
I added another partition (of 1TB) (shown as the 3rd-E-Partiton)
& copied all of my data-files to it.
Today:
When I viewed the drive again, via: [Start] < Computer
...it showed the C: drive as: 16.6 GB free of 195 GB
...ie: 4 GB less than yesterday, yet I cant see how that amount of space could have been used.
I was intending to extend the size of the C-Partition,
but it seems that I cant now do this (since adding the 3rd-Partition)
because it seems that you can only extend-a-partition into adjacent/contiguous unallocated space.
So:
As I couldn't understand why so much of the C-Partition had been used up,
I decided to check-out the sizes of all the listed folder on this drive,
including the 'Hidden files & folders' & 'Hidden protected OS files'
Which total: 88 GB / SO WHERE are the reaming 107 GB ! (ie: 195-88=107 unaccounted for)
Many thank.