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    Missing HD space?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by a36, Jan 4, 2009.

  1. a36

    a36 Notebook Consultant

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    Before I get yelled at I already know about the difference between actual drive capacity and advertised space and the discrepancy when calculating the two numbers. Bearing that in mind my brand new laptop should have 298 gigs of usable space on its 320 gig HD. However I can only count 289 gigs of usable space, where are the missing 9 gigs?

    OS is Vista Home Premium, drive is partitioned (281/8 gigs) too. ty
     
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  2. NJoy

    NJoy Няшka

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    they are hidden as recovery partition. If you go MyComputer-->Manage-->Storage, u'll be able to see it as EISA partition
     
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  3. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    In Windows OS/OSX:

    1024 bytes = 1KB
    1024 KB = 1MB
    1024 MB = 1GB

    Harddrive companies often calculate otherwise,

    For example a 320GB drive is actually 320,000,000,000 bytes which translates to about 291 GB in Windows.

    So in otherwords, there isn't any missing space.
     
    D3X, Jan 4, 2009
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