If I run an tool called PC doctor it breaks down the drive (below): The 17.3 shows when looking at the drive properties through my computer. I am not concerned about recovering the space, I was just curious as to why so much was not usable. Thanks for all the feedback.
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DRIVE 0:
Size 19535040 kB
Tracks 2584
Heads 240
Sectors 63
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Partition 1
Partition Format 7 = NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX, IFS
Bootable Yes
Recognized Yes
Rewrite No
Start 63 Sectors From Beginning Of Disk
Size 18136408 kB
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Partition 2
Partition Format 28
Bootable No
Recognized Yes
Rewrite No
Start 36272880 Sectors From Beginning Of Disk
Size 1398600 kB
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It also says the following:
NOTE: The size of the logical drive does usually not match the size of the physical hard drive, because areas of the hard drive are used for management purposes, storing the partition table and other information. For the same reason the total sum of all partitions will be a little short of the total size of the hard disk drive.
NOTE: The number of tracks, heads and sectors shown here might be different than the actual physical parameters of the drive. This is due to a technique called "Drive Geometry Translation". Geometry Translation is used to make a drive with more than 1024 tracks appear to have less than 1024. The reason for using Geometry Translation is a built-in limitation in the PC-AT BIOS that prevents access to tracks numbered higher than 1023.
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It is not really a problem, just was curious about the missing space..
Regards,
MDA