Acer 5635 140 GB insteed of 160GB

Hi,

I just bought an aspire 5635 and it should come with 160GB hard drive but windows shows 2 partitions with 70GB each.
Everywhere is specified that is has 160GB but not in windows and i don't understand why... I also installed XP Pro and it shows the same thing.

 

formating of the disks usually decreases the capacity a bit
and im sure there should be a hidden recovery partition along woth other propertior software installed
so i guess its normal

 

I was just about to say the same thing. Also windows installation does not take up zero Gb, that also takes away from the storage capacity. I don't know if this is his first notebook(or acer for that matter ) but most of them on the market now have recovery partitions which can steal several Gb worth of storage space from your advertised hard drive size. I wouldn't worry about it either, enjoy your new system ...

 

there will be a 4-5gb recovery partion.

plus remember the number of Bytes on the disk is 160,000,000,000Bytes,
and one KiloByte is 1024bytes. so if all the memory is in the sae partion you will only get about 150GB tops. and this is normal, all manufacuters do this.

 

Thanks for reply guys. Maybe there is a hidden partion. My old Asus L3800 (which is hundred times better build then this Acer) when I bought it in '02/'03 didn't come with any hidden stuff that's why I didn't know.

Thanks.

 

correct me if I am wrong EVERY acer I have seen has a recovery partion, so I would even suggest they all do.

good luck.

 

And the very Looong answer, per Wiki is:
"The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) only standardized binary prefixes in 1999. Many practitioners early on in the computer and semiconductor industries used the prefix kilo to describe 210 (1024) bits, bytes or words because 1024 is close to 1000. Similar usage has been applied to the prefixes mega, giga, tera, and even peta. Often this non-SI conforming usage is noted by a qualifier such as "1 kB = 1,024 bytes" but the qualifier is sometimes omitted, particularly in marketing literature.

Operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, frequently report capacity using the binary interpretation of the prefixes, which results in a discrepancy between the disk manufacturer's stated capacity and what the system reports. The difference becomes much more noticeable in the multi-gigabyte range. For example, Microsoft's Windows 2000 reports disk capacity both in decimal to 12 or more significant digits and with binary prefixes to 3 significant digits. Thus a disk specified by a disk manufacturer as a 30 GB disk might have its capacity reported by Windows 2000 both as "30,065,098,568 bytes" and "28.0 GB." The disk manufacturer used the SI definition of "giga," 109. However utilities provided by Windows define a gigabyte as 230, or 1,073,741,824, bytes, so the reported capacity of the disk will be closer to 28.0 GB. For this reason, many utilities that report capacity have begun to use the aforementioned IEC standard binary prefixes (e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB) since their definitions are unambiguous.

Some people mistakenly attribute the discrepancy in reported and specified capacities to reserved space used for file system and partition accounting information. However, for large (several GiB) filesystems, this data rarely occupies more than a few MiB, and therefore cannot possibly account for the apparent "loss" of tens of GBs."

 

well said! wow.

 

I just used fdisk on my acer to remove the partition, freed up a bit of space avaliable