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    dv8000t hard drive space

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bluestrike, Jul 3, 2006.

  1. bluestrike

    bluestrike Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just partitioned my hard drive using partition magic and after making 5 partitions my hard drive space shows as 74 GB out of 80 GB. I have made partitions before but a loss of 6 GB seems too much. Did anyone try partitioning. What is your default hard drive space. Looking forward to some replies. Thanks.
     
    bluestrike, Jul 3, 2006
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  2. Tim

    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yeah that seems about right. I have an 80GB hard drive but I only can use 74.5GB of it. That is just how it is. :p
    Tim
     
    Tim, Jul 4, 2006
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    74.5 * (1024 ^ 3) = 79993765888, or about 80,000,000,000 bytes. I'm not sure who's marketing weasles started calling a kilobyte 1,000 bytes when convenient first but they're all doing it now.
     
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    Thanks guys. :)
     
    bluestrike, Jul 4, 2006
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