Distribution of Disk Usage

This may be a very simple issue. I'm just wondering if there is some function where I can see the distribution of where my disk space is used. My hard drive is basically full (capacity 159.7 GB; available 826.9 MB; used 158.87 GB), but when I hit get info for the different folders that are directly within the "Macintosh HD" (Applications, Users, System, Library) I can only account for about 120 GB worth of disk usage so I'm a bit confused. If the discrepancy was due to the disk formatting wouldn't that be reflected in the capacity shown under the Macintosh HD info? Or is there some other usage that is hidden somehow?

There are many folders that are normally invisible (to keep you from messing around with them unless you really know what you're doing). They aren't included in the 120GB that you can account for.
With less than 1GB of free space on your hard drive, you are in imminent danger of losing the use of your computer, and perhaps losing some of the data you've stored on it. You need to free up an absolute minimum of 10GB of space immediately, and 15-20GB would be much better. You can indeed see exactly how the space on the drive is being used and what is taking up how much of it, but it requires software that you will need to download and install, and you would be insane to add anything to your hard drive now. After you've deleted at least 10GB of data from the drive, download, install and run DiskInventory X for a graphical and textual display of what is using your hard drive space. This will quickly show you what remains on the drive that's really large and probably shouldn't be on it.

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    WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
    Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
    Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
      312576 file records processed.
    File verification completed.
      2842 large file records processed.
      0 bad file records processed.
    Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
      374016 index entries processed.
    Index verification completed.
      0 unindexed files scanned.
      0 unindexed files recovered.
    Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
    Security descriptor verification completed.
      30721 data files processed.
    CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
      35081856 USN bytes processed.
    Usn Journal verification completed.
    Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
    No further action is required.
     950891520 KB total disk space.
      95217124 KB in 126944 files.
         72404 KB in 30722 indexes.
             0 KB in bad sectors.
        444304 KB in use by the system.
         65536 KB occupied by the log file.
     855157688 KB available on disk.
          4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
     237722880 total allocation units on disk.
     213789422 allocation units available on disk.
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