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    X205 hard drive real size?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by primula, Dec 13, 2007.

  1. primula

    primula Notebook Enthusiast

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    They said 2 hard drives 160 gigas each but my computer an Everest show 149 gigas and even wen i have 5 gigas inside , i have just 134 gigas free were are the others 21 gigas i lost ????
     
    primula, Dec 13, 2007
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    It has to do with the way Windows reports hard drive space as opposed to the way hard drive manufacturers do. Obviously the hard drive makers want it to seem larger. Windows sees a 160GB hard drive as 150GB. Then minus the 15GB for the Operating System and Apps plus if you any recovery partition which would leave you with 134GB free.
     
    ZaZ, Dec 14, 2007
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    primula Notebook Enthusiast

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    yep but x205 came with 2 hd and the second one show same size and there is not o.s inside
     
    primula, Dec 15, 2007
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    Do you have a recovery partition or backups on it?
     
    ZaZ, Dec 15, 2007
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    When the drives are formatted some of the space is used for hidden system files and usually you loose about 15% percent of the original drive space after formatting on any hard drive and it is normal so I would not worry about it at all. I have seen this issue discussed many many times ever since I started using computers back in the 80's (yes I am and old person!! LOL!!)
     
    jesse6749, Dec 15, 2007
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    primula Notebook Enthusiast

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    No men nothing at all
    :confused:, second HD clean nothing inside but same size lost 15 gigaz
     
    primula, Dec 18, 2007
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    primula Notebook Enthusiast

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    Jaaa :eek:
     
    primula, Dec 18, 2007
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    Right-click on "My computer" and choose "manage".
    Click on Disk manager.

    It will show you how they partitioned it.
    Yeah, even my secondary drive has a unused partition on it.


    Hard drive manufacturers use a trick to make the hard disks seem like more.

    They measure a Megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes which is not correct.
    A megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes

    They measure a Gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes which is also not correct.
    A Gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes.
     
    KernalPanic, Dec 18, 2007
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    primula Notebook Enthusiast

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    Toshiba :mad: :mad: :mad:

    Thanks for your time dude :)
     
    primula, Dec 18, 2007
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    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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    Why are you mad at Toshiba? :confused:
     
    Padmé, Dec 19, 2007
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  11. Ingvarr

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    Actually, SI standard "Giga" prefix means, 10^9 = 1,000,000,000

    To prevent confusion, "traditional computer gigabyte" that is 1,073,741,824 bytes is properly called Gibibyte to prevent confusion.

    Hard drive manufacturers always used SI Gigabytes, Toshiba have nothing to do with it.

    You can read more here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
     
    Ingvarr, Dec 20, 2007
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