I haven't payed much attention, but tonight when I went to look at my 100GB hard drives free space it reads 4.3GB out of 93.1GB, when I recieved this laptop I did not like the software on it so manually formatted(not off the OS disk, but manually /fdisk) and created one partition using 100%. Also after installing my OS and getting everything set up my total hard drive space was 100GB. Please help!

There are two versions of Fdisk. The original and Fdisk64, which can work with drives larger than 64GB. Neither one can yield the full 100GB because of the way in which manufacturers rate drive size it will always be less. That said I am not sure what you need help with. If your drive is that full you do need to off loadd some files. Defrag won't even work with less than 15% free space.

"Neither one can yield the full 100GB because of the way in which manufacturers rate drive size it will always be less." Drive manufacturers have always used the bogus decimal based size, based on powers of 10, designation - e.g. 1 kb = 1000 bytes; 1 gb = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Your operating system and most mboard bioses use the binary size designation, based on powers of 2 (data can only be off or on, desiginated as 0 or 1) - 1 kb = 1,024 bytes; 1 mb = 1,024 x 1,024 bytes/kb = 1,048,576 bytes; 1 gb = 1,024 x 1,048,576 bytes/mb = 1,073,041,824 bytes So exactly 100gb (the drive may not actually be exactly 100gb - it's often rounded off) decimal manufacturer's size is the same as 93.139gb in binary size. That's the total size seen in most mboard bioses. In addition your operating system uses up a small part of that capacity when you partition and format the drive that can't be used for your data.

Well when I started my drive read ninety-somthing GB free out of 100, it's deteriorated down to 93.1 and actually this morning it's 92.9, it's going down .1-.2 a day, I think I have malicious spyware or virus that is partitioning of small sectors of my hard drive. Any ideas? Also I cleared my drive up, now I have 18.4GB free out of 92.9, tried defrag and told me I had files that could not be defragmented and stopped 20% in. Tried Check disk and scandisk but both didn't finish, they froze and stopped.

I told you in a previous reply that you need 15% free to run Defrag. Try empying your recycle bin and run disk cleanup. You may have caught something. If your HDrive IS a 100GB then you never had 100GB showing in My Computer. I guarantee that. When setting up a partition you will see the size in megabytes in which case the number will start with a 1++++++++. There are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, 1024 Kilobytes in a megabyte and 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte. If you do the math you will see how that comes out. Now take 100,000,000,000 and divide it by 1024 three times. Hope I have the right amount of zeros in there.

Well the fact the isn't that my hard drive is showing 100GB or not, it's the fact that my hard drive capacity is deteriorating slowing over time. So, get back on track or please don't reply. Also I know you need to 15% for Defrag to run properly, you can still defrag without 15% but most the time you get an error. However defrag'ing and division have nothing to do with my problem.

Ah, my fault, I apologize, however if 18.4 and divide it by 92.9 (now 92.8 :-(.) it's well over 15%. Just thought I'd apologize for that and clear that up.