Setting>Storage shows that ThisPC is C:
That's not correct, since This Pc contains two Windows, Linux Mint and a data partition.
I don't expect windows to see Linux partitions.
But no matter how I look at it, I cannot make any sense out of the display in Settings
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Lenovo Thinkpad T430s OS: Windows 7-pro-sp1 and windows 10-pro-1803 CPU: Intel i5 3320 Motherboard: no idea Memory: 12g Graphics Card: Intel and Nvidia
This is an old argument. It has been stated over and over, that the space calculated by Windows is correct. You have to go into Drive Management to see the actual size of the partition, not from explorer.
As for looking at the Ext4 partition, you can download third party utilities or use Gparted in Linux to see them.
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Macbook Air (2021) OS: Mac OS Catalina CPU: M1 Motherboard: Apple Memory: 8 GB Monitor(s) Displays: Retina Screen Resolution: 13.3 - inch (1440 x 900) Hard Drives: 500 GB Internal Browser: Google Chrome Antivirus: None needed. It is Mac OS
"old" - oh, yes, I failed to search first. Sorry.
Windows explorer numbers match diskmgmt.msc numbers.
Storage view listed as ThisPC (C: ) under Settings makes no sense to me.
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Lenovo Thinkpad T430s OS: Windows 7-pro-sp1 and windows 10-pro-1803 CPU: Intel i5 3320 Motherboard: no idea Memory: 12g Graphics Card: Intel and Nvidia
"old" - oh, yes, I failed to search first. Sorry.
Windows explorer numbers match diskmgmt.msc numbers.
Storage view listed as ThisPC (C: ) under Settings makes no sense to me.
Your Storage isn't much different from mine, on my only internal 1TB HDD C: is my Windows/boot/system partition and D: partition is for additional Data and programs. And then I have an ODD and 3 USB HDDs. Are your C:, E: and M: partitions on a drive or separate drives? Attachment 142484
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Customs, Dell, HP, ASUS OS: Win10 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home, Win7, Linux Mint CPU: AMD and Intel Motherboard: Dell and Gigabyte Sound Card: Onboard Monitor(s) Displays: Dell 24" Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Hard Drives: SATA and NVMe SSDs and SATA HDDs Browser: Firefox, Edge, Chromium, Vivaldi, SeaMonkey Other Info: 4 computers on KVM switch
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo OS: Win11 Pro, Win7, Win10 Home and Pro, Linux Mint, MS-DOS 6.20 w/Win3.1 CPU: AMD and Intel Monitor(s) Displays: 12", 13", 14", 15", 17" Browser: Firefox, Edge, Chromium [not Chrome], Vivaldi, SeaMonkey
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Lenovo Thinkpad T430s OS: Windows 7-pro-sp1 and windows 10-pro-1803 CPU: Intel i5 3320 Motherboard: no idea Memory: 12g Graphics Card: Intel and Nvidia
Your 3 lettered partitions plus the 4 unlettered partitions plus the unallocated space total about 465.77GB suggesting the drive is marked by the manufacturer as 500GB. There is some 'loss' of capacity as drives get partitioned and formatted, quite normal. The Storage view doesn't take into account unlettered partitions or unallocated space, probably won't even see any sections using unsupported formats.
Unallocated = unpartitioned, unformatted
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Customs, Dell, HP, ASUS OS: Win10 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home, Win7, Linux Mint CPU: AMD and Intel Motherboard: Dell and Gigabyte Sound Card: Onboard Monitor(s) Displays: Dell 24" Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Hard Drives: SATA and NVMe SSDs and SATA HDDs Browser: Firefox, Edge, Chromium, Vivaldi, SeaMonkey Other Info: 4 computers on KVM switch
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo OS: Win11 Pro, Win7, Win10 Home and Pro, Linux Mint, MS-DOS 6.20 w/Win3.1 CPU: AMD and Intel Monitor(s) Displays: 12", 13", 14", 15", 17" Browser: Firefox, Edge, Chromium [not Chrome], Vivaldi, SeaMonkey
I have no problem with 465GB. Yes, it is a 500GB drive.
Screen shots in my first post show Storage reports 87GB used out of 139GB. How is that possible on 78GB windows 10 partition? I did google today and found nothing similar. Berton, can you post what explorer shows like I did in the second screenie in the first post. Just to compare notes.
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Lenovo Thinkpad T430s OS: Windows 7-pro-sp1 and windows 10-pro-1803 CPU: Intel i5 3320 Motherboard: no idea Memory: 12g Graphics Card: Intel and Nvidia
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Customs, Dell, HP, ASUS OS: Win10 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home, Win7, Linux Mint CPU: AMD and Intel Motherboard: Dell and Gigabyte Sound Card: Onboard Monitor(s) Displays: Dell 24" Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Hard Drives: SATA and NVMe SSDs and SATA HDDs Browser: Firefox, Edge, Chromium, Vivaldi, SeaMonkey Other Info: 4 computers on KVM switch
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo OS: Win11 Pro, Win7, Win10 Home and Pro, Linux Mint, MS-DOS 6.20 w/Win3.1 CPU: AMD and Intel Monitor(s) Displays: 12", 13", 14", 15", 17" Browser: Firefox, Edge, Chromium [not Chrome], Vivaldi, SeaMonkey
As the calculator proves, this is the exact amount for 500gb: 465.6613 USB Hard Disk Real Capacity Calculator -- EndMemo A lot of that has to do with reserved space for any bad blocks or sectors. Also it holds a copy of the MBR and other partition info in a reserved space, as it moves data when sectors start to go bad, it will move that data into reserved areas as it tries to rearrange data to make sure that blocks of common files like the Pagefile, stay in one large area.
You can use one of the Tree Viewers to show you how data is laid out and to see what is eating up space. If you have Hibernate enabled, turn it off in Command with Powercfg /hibernate off The page file if too large, can also eat up precious space, same as downloaded files that Windows holds in a reserved folder and temp files.
Always clear out old installs, temp files, etc, before getting a real count of drive space available.
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Macbook Air (2021) OS: Mac OS Catalina CPU: M1 Motherboard: Apple Memory: 8 GB Monitor(s) Displays: Retina Screen Resolution: 13.3 - inch (1440 x 900) Hard Drives: 500 GB Internal Browser: Google Chrome Antivirus: None needed. It is Mac OS
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Customs, Dell, HP, ASUS OS: Win10 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home, Win7, Linux Mint CPU: AMD and Intel Motherboard: Dell and Gigabyte Sound Card: Onboard Monitor(s) Displays: Dell 24" Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Hard Drives: SATA and NVMe SSDs and SATA HDDs Browser: Firefox, Edge, Chromium, Vivaldi, SeaMonkey Other Info: 4 computers on KVM switch
Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Dell, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo OS: Win11 Pro, Win7, Win10 Home and Pro, Linux Mint, MS-DOS 6.20 w/Win3.1 CPU: AMD and Intel Monitor(s) Displays: 12", 13", 14", 15", 17" Browser: Firefox, Edge, Chromium [not Chrome], Vivaldi, SeaMonkey
I have Windows 10 Pro 64 bit 2004 build on several laptops .
Now a certain game from store asked for being updated to run , so I managed to set it to update which required a download of 2.7 GBs from store , so whilst midway I thought why not...
As you can see in the supplied image, the screen is buggy and "pixelated." Happens on any website I go to. Does not happen on Chrome or Internet Explorer.