A305 - S6916 incorrect Hard Drive?

I just purchased a  A305 - S6916 Laptop last week. I already put 1 message in the forums here "compressing h/d - A305 - S6916" and his answer was sufficient for me.
My new question is: This system should have a 320 Gig hardrive. I understand that the vista home premium OS takes up a lot of hard drive space but it couldn't possibly take up 80 Gigs right? Am I wrong? 80 Gigs??!?!? When I took this laptop out of the boxd, I had 240/288 Gigs. Doesn't that imply that I have a total of only 288 Gigs? There is no other hard drive on this laptop; no other drives I see.
Should't I have 320 Gigs as promised? Where is the other (320-288) 32 Gigs ? Where is it listed? hardrive capacity total says 288 Gigs.
That's 32 Gigs plus 48 Gigs off the bat on a brand-new unused computer. 80 Gigs for the OS?!?!?
Where is the other 32 gigs @?
Do I possibly have the incorrect hard drive?
Thankyou in advance for helping me w/ this issue.
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Here is some data on a hard drive I recently upgraded:  Diagnostic readout capsuled for your reading.  Take care.A 120-GB HDD appears as 111.75 GB after Windows is installed due to Binary numbering system.
3 GB is paging file ( 1.5 times RAM ). That makes 108.75 GB.
2 GB hibernation file ( = RAM ). That leaves behind 105.75 GB.
15% total HDD space for system restore. That leaves behind 89 GB.
Vista installation is around 15 GB. That leaves behind 74 GB.
You say you put 20 GB of stuff. That leaves behind 54 GB.
About 1 GB for explorer internet cache ( adjustable ).
Uninstall files for Windows updates ( hidden in Windows folder ).

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