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    T61 Hard Drive Question

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by vev-ray, Mar 1, 2008.

  1. vev-ray

    vev-ray Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just recieved my T61 2 days ago, and i'm checking to make sure I got what i ordered. I ordered a 120gb 5400rpm hard drive. but when i checked the hard drive it is only reading as 106gb? I know there can be some descripancy but 14gb is a lot. where's the rest?
     
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    FloydTheBarber Notebook Consultant

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    The ratio between GB and GiB is ~93%. Therefore, your 120GB hard drive (completely empty) will be read by the OS as 111GB. Then approx. 5GB are used by a hidden recovery partition.
     
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    hummmm interesting....i did forget about the recovery partition...thanks floyd
     
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