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Who told you it is 160GB? Did they provide any evidence?
You have some kind of drive, identified as sda, that is only an eighth of one GB. I expect that is an old flash drive, but maybe it is a very old disk drive or some strange boot area in the motherboard.
You have a disk drive that seems to be about 38GB. You have about 6GB on that 38GB drive reserved for swap space. I can't tell whether that swap space is properly mounted.
It is possible for a Host Protected Area or other obscure issue to make a drive look like it is much smaller than its correct size. But I wouldn't start with a guess of some strange issue like that. I'd start with the guess that you were misinformed about the disk size.
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