New Laptop issues.

[Alexx..]

I got a new compaq laptop the other day as my last one is now dead. I've only added a few programs on it so far such as Photoshop, ITunes, BitTorrent and Google Chrome.

When I go to my computer it says there's 230gb free out of 281gb(which is weird anyway cause it should be 320gb), which means just under 50gb is being used for no reason?
Does anyone have any idea why it says this?
I've tried uninstalling programs but they're just taking it down little bits.

I'm running windows 7 if this matters?

[Jack!]

Does it have a recovery partition? that will take some.

[james,]

I work with computers for a living and I have never heard of anything like this. It may look like there is a hardware problem, I would return it to the store and ask what they think whats wrong with it, but it looks to me like a error that cant be fixed

Sorry if its not much help m8 and what the person said above, recovery may take some but not all that lot? S:

[Alexx..]

Yeah but that only takes up 16gb, so there's over 30gb still floating about somewhere.

[Robbie]

Normal. Not an issue.

[james,]

I would not class this as normal @Robbie. I have no idea, maybe take it back to the store? :s

[Tom]

It's probably just a case of maybe a previous owner doing things to it and adding things. If it's brand new it may be space which isn't used and your hard drive just needs to be extended.

[hamheyelliot]

It could be a hidden partition, some manufacturers keep a failsafe where the laptop can be restored to a factory state, so the unaccounted space is possibly for that purpose. My Dell seems to hog quite a lot of 'mystery' space.

[james,]

It's probably just a case of maybe a previous owner doing things to it and adding things. If it's brand new it may be space which isn't used and your hard drive just needs to be extended.

It could be this if I am honest, but then again if he wiped it it would have been removed. Just do a disc defragmentation, should get rid of most stuff m8 (;

[Johno]

My C drive is 439GB, Recovery is 25GB. That's 464GB accounted for, the drive is 500GB. It is normal.

Run Disk Manager to see where the space is going (diskmgmt.msc)

It could be this if I am honest, but then again if he wiped it it would have been removed. Just do a disc defragmentation, should get rid of most stuff m8 (;

Do you even know what disk defragmentation does?