Lost file recovery Why hard drive have less space in Windows?

We always found that the storage device like hard drive, U disk, SD card always have less space than advertised. We have got used to this difference. But most of people do not know why the it show the different capacity in Windows.  And where the other space go?

If you have ever formatted the raw hard drive, USB drives, you will know that they have less space after they are formatted. If windows format the drive, it need space for file system, boot data. Although they take up less space on your drive compared with the larger capacity, your free space on the drive then have less than advertised.

As we all know that 1 GB is 1024 MB,1 MB is 1024 KB. But to the manufacturer, 1 GB is 1000 MB, 1 MB is 1024 KB. Apparently, if you buy an advertised 500 GB drive, the actual memory will less than the advertised. In addition, there are some other reasons for the less space problem. Such as there are some invisible files, hidden recovery partition on your drive.

Why the windows show less space than the actual free space?

We can check the free space by right-click the drive. In the Properties, it tells you the used space and the free space. If you want to validate the free space showed here, you can check all the files in the drive and right-click to find the amount space of all these files. However, you may find that  this does not match the used space displayed in the properties of the drive. The size of all the files is less than the used space. That’s really confusing and where did the addition space go?

Some files are hidden in windows, like the shadow copies. It includes the restore point and previous versions of files.However, you can run the command prompt to know the size of the shadow files. Open the cmd.exe and run as administrator, type “ vssadmin list shadow storage” without quote, and press enter. Then we can see the listed Used shadow copy storage space; Allocated shadow copy storage space;Maximum shadow copy storage space.

If there is a hidden recovery partition, the total space will be reduced. To find this partition, you can type partition in the search box and then click the link of Create and format hard disk partition to open the disk management. We can find the entire space and all the partitions on the hard drive. If there is a hidden recovery partition, it will show here without a drive letter.

Now I believe you have known more about the space and storage of the hard drive. Once you have data loss on the hard drive, you should neither format or re-partitioning the hard drive, nor write new data to the hard drive to overwritten the raw data on the hard drive. Then the data recovery software can help you to scan and recover all the lost files.

Lost file recovery: How can Hdata recovery software retrieve your lost file?

As we all know that the files lost from hard drive will not be erased from there immediately. The content will keep on the hard drive waiting to be recovered. No matter why you lost your files, by accidental deletion, formatting, mistaken partition, virus infection ,etc. As long the content are here, the data recovery software can restore them easily. Hdata recovery provides individual recovery method for formatted hard drive, lost partition, recycle bin and USB devices. With the simple interface, it’s very easy for everyone to use. If you occasionally found your partition shows O bytes, it is attacked by virus, before you use the data recovery tool, you should scan the virus first. Although you may lost data after using the antivirus software, don’t worry, the data recovery software can retrieve them.