Posted June 27, 2021 My Hard drive shows 411 GB less data, stored data is 291 GB and free space is 229 GB rest 411 HDD shows its occupied. I have been using this HDD for the past 6 years and i have never formatted. what should i do? 1905773837_Desktop2021_06.27-10_25_11_02.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 27, 2021 Yes totally normal, no need to panic. This is all thanks to allocation, the file system alone needs to take up some space. Yes this does seem like false advertisement, you buy a 1TB hard drive but only find out it only has 930GB of free space when you use it is not abnormal. There are many factors on your typical hard drive (and same goes for a SSD) that determines how and why space is not what is said on the tin. Still if you have not done so please defrag your hard drives, that helps plus empty your trash now and then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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