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ritish Original post #1
Nov 4, 2006 at 8:17 PM
I own a laptop and the OS is in C drive.
my total consumption of disk space is 5 gb
but when I right click in properties it shows 8 gb.
can any one explain the phenomenon
Tech Geek
Nov 4, 2006 at 8:27 PM
It happened to me also many times
I didn't care about it since i had a lot of space on my PC
assasin
assasin #3
Nov 4, 2006 at 9:17 PM
The 'missing space' is allocated for system use.for details just view the post:

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40307
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ritish #4
Nov 4, 2006 at 11:03 PM
but 3gb space is too much to be used by other resources.
assasin
assasin #5
Nov 5, 2006 at 12:42 AM
To see d amt of space of ur allocated to Page File just type 'dxdiag' in run.u'll get ur answer.For my pc its bout 2.4GB
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ritish #6
Nov 6, 2006 at 1:23 PM
my page file is only 476mb. still i can account for the rest 2.5GB.
What should I do next to correct it .
Is there any software available for recovering from such inconsistencies
assasin
assasin #7
Nov 6, 2006 at 2:42 PM
I dont think dat u'll get any software to reclaim dat space.U jst hav to live wit it.