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    Portege M500 HD 10GB missing(?)

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by red_devil, May 24, 2007.

  1. red_devil

    red_devil Notebook Guru

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    Just bought Portege M500.

    Should be 120GB total.

    But only shows

    C:100GB
    D:9.99GB

    total 109.99GB.

    Is the missing 10GB for recovery portion again?
    No way I can free up that 10GB for use as well?

    Thanks
     
    red_devil, May 24, 2007
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  2. sesshomaru

    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    Nope. The recovery partition would be about 2 GB. The rest of the space simply does not exist. It's a result of differences in methods of calculating the capacity.
     
    sesshomaru, May 24, 2007
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  3. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    HDD manufacturers assume that giga = 1 billion.

    Computers assume that a kilo = 1024, mega = 1024 x 1024 and giga = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = 1,073,741,824.

    So take 120 x 1000,000,000 (the nominal HDD size) and divide by 1,073,741,824 and you get 111.76GB.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, May 24, 2007
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  4. red_devil

    red_devil Notebook Guru

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    marketing scam again.......

    I still remember my western digital ATA hard drive
    lawsuit letter stating 320GB but really only 290GB...
     
    red_devil, May 24, 2007
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  5. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    Quoted for Truth. Not too many people know this.
     
    Gautam, May 24, 2007
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