40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 5:57 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO A 40 GB hdd should give 37.25 GB of Binary space. Is it an OEM drive and does it have a hidden recovery partition? (Usually about 5 GB). I have seen a 250 GB drive with a 15GB recovery partition which has only about 5 GB of actual recovery files in the form of a 'Ghost' drive image and 10 GB of wasted space. System Restore is the usual culprit after which it might be the MFT. How is the drive formatted? OPEN OFFICE Written in response to: 40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space (Bradley Wolosz: Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:14 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space (Bradley Wolosz: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 12:14 pm) re: 40GB HD Missing "some" Space (Kiwi: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 12:29 pm) re: 40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space (Rockhound: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 1:12 pm) re: 40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space (al man: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 2:51 pm) 40GB HD Missing 15 GB of of Space (Cam: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 5:57 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum