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    G51 hard drive smaller than advertised??

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by McStagger87, Aug 10, 2009.

  1. McStagger87

    McStagger87 Newbie

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    Hi, I recently bought the G51 BestBuy special. Great little machine, but I just have one concern. It was advertised to have a 320gb hard drive, but when I checked the system specs it says there is only a total of 286gb present. Did I get cheated out of 35gb of disk space or what?? Thanks in advance for any help.
     
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    SoundOf1HandClapping Was once a Forge

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    Formatting takes up room, and Asus puts a recovery partition that's about 10 GBs. Your space is about right.
     
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    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    Do not warry about that. Your HDD is OK
     
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    The_Stamp Notebook Guru

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    Vista also has a system partition, hidden from what you see in the drive listings in Vista.
     
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    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    Welcome to the forum!

    The size of a 320GB drive that Windows will report is 297 (the conversion ratio for base10 to base8 that you will always use is ~0.93). And as Forge correctly mentioned, Asus' recovery partition is ~11GB and it is a standard part of every Asus model released in the past 3-4 years.

    This partition is hidden, however, so Windows will not see it - the partition exists to more rapidly facilitate an OS system recovery in 1/3-1/2 the time it would take using the restore DVDs.
     
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    Goobers Notebook Enthusiast

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    base 2 (not base 8)

    and no, it's not "always" ~0.93

    it is .9765625 (1000/1024 or 125/128) per prefix (kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc).

    1 business kilobyte = .9765625 computer kilobyte.
    1 business megabyte = .95367431640625 computer megabyte (.9765625 x .9765625)
    1 business gigabyte = ~.93 (it's getting ridiculously long)
    1 business terabyte = ~0.91

    if you want something that is, let's just say simple for those that know math...

    conversion factor is [10^(3*n)]/[2^(10*n)] where n is the prefix (0 for none, 1 for kilo, 2 for mega, etc).

    as for why it isn't base 8... the ONLY time 8 is used, is going from bit to byte. otherwise, it's 2^10 (1024) per prefix.
     
    Goobers, Aug 11, 2009
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