How do I check the size of my HDD?

adandem

Hi, my laptop is supposed to have a 500gb hard drive.

I have looked at 'my computer' details and can't see anything which is 500. There's 329 of 329gb free on the D and 80 of 116gb free on the C drive.

Am I looking in the wrong place?
Thanks

Hammyman

No. It will be one physical hard drive partitioned into two logical ones, C and D. . 329GB+116GB = 445GB which sounds right taking into account the differences in definitions of a Gigabyte and a possible hidden recovery partition.

If you go to Control Panel, Administration Tools, Computer Management, Storage then you'll see the single drive and the two partitions.

bigfreddiel

adandem wrote: »

Hi, my laptop is supposed to have a 500gb hard drive.

I have looked at 'my computer' details and can't see anything which is 500. There's 329 of 329gb free on the D and 80 of 116gb free on the C drive.

Am I looking in the wrong place?
Thanks

df -h

the above command will tellyou the sizes and how the disk is partitioned

fj

adandem

There's another 20gb in there thanks;)

I take it that the 'OS' is where windows and other programes are?

adandem

bigfreddiel wrote: »

df -h

Sorry, not very techie, how do i do this?

bigfreddiel

adandem wrote: »

Sorry, not very techie, how do i do this?

ah I see my mistake - I assumed you were running linux?

spud17

Bet it's an Acer, they (used to) partition like that, a big D drive to store stuff, but many don't know how to use it. No offence to OP.

debitcardmayhem

spud17 wrote: »

[STRIKE]Bet it's an Acer, they (used to) partition like that,[/STRIKE] a big D [STRIKE]drive[/STRIKE] to store stuff, but many don't know how to use it. No offence to OP.

Shoot I can only cope with a C , apologies to the PC brigades.

adandem

spud17 wrote: »

Bet it's an Acer. No offence to OP.

Wrong I'm afraid - Asus;) No offence taken.;)

Darksun

bigfreddiel wrote: »

ah I see my mistake - I assumed you were running linux?

Mentions of 'My Computer' and a 'C:' and 'D:' drive... and you assume it's Linux?

Hammyman

adandem wrote: »

There's another 20gb in there thanks;)

I take it that the 'OS' is where windows and other programes are?

No. That will be the recovery partition to re-install the OS if it all goes wrong.