Info bar at bottom of window missing in Mountain Lion

I have a Mac Pro with Snow Leopard installed and at the bottom of finder windows, such as the Macintosh HD window, there is a bar which shows how much space is left on hard drive and also how many files/folders are selected. On my Macbook pro with Mountain Lion this bar is missing and I can't seem to get it show at all. Is this a feature of Mountain Lion as I found the info bar very useful?
Thanks
Peter

That's the status bar, hidden in OS X Lion and Mountain Lion by default. To show it, open a Finder window and go to View menu (on the menu bar) > Show Status Bar, so it will show up at the bottom of the Finder window

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