Viewing Total hard drive capacity

Ive been looking at my hard drive etc and I have about 250gigs of free space left. Which kind of shocked me since I paid for a 320gig hard drive. But of course remember all the junk that needed to be installed/ partitioned etc.. I figured it was just that.
Still I was curious and I found out that my C drive had max space of about 280gb, while the D drive had about 20gb, there were some other mini drives, like the disk, etc...
All in all everything added up to 300gb. So where's the rest of my 20gb????
I checked everywhere from my computer to disk management to device manager, etc.... I finally found somewhere that
my hard drive named *a bunch of numbers* had a total of 300gb (it actually said like 300000 blah blah mb you know)
Does anyone know where the 20gb are ? what they're used for? and if you know where its located?
I just want to see that I have a total of 320 and I wasn't jipped or something

thats all normal with all harddrives, difference in the way it gets formatted by the OS. you will never see a full 320gb
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Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
** My Mac contains 2 memory slots, each of which accepts a 1333 MHz DDR3 memory module.
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
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Product: 6 Series Chipset
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Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
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Headphone:
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Speaker:
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S/PDIF Optical Digital Audio Input:
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