Drive - storage doesn't add up

[Hi P]

Sorry, its not letting me to downscale the images, so I had to link them below.

 

[ Image #1 ] - I have a 500 GB external drive, the property window says I've used 176 GB.

[ Image #2 ] - But  when I select all folders inside the drive and click on properties, the total size of the files is 116 GB.

 

Why is there a 60 GB difference?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Well there is a min space used for every file, so if you have lots of small files(like you seem to ) there is lots of wasted space. Whats the cluster size on the drive?

[minibois]

Could be hidden folders, have you enabled those via View > Hidden Items (checkbox on the right)?

Otherwise, the thing suggested above is likely the culprit.

[Crunken]

windirstat is a free program and you can actually see whats on the harddrive (it shows you everything in little boxes pretty much) maybe try if you can find the files there, i've been using the program for years

[Enderman]

Use windirstat to see all the used space.

Even showing hidden folders will not show everything that is on the drive.

Also check windows disk management to see if there are other partitions.