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Old 04-25-2009, 03:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Western Digital 640GB Hard drive Showing as 596GB

When I launch Disc Management, these are the numbers that I get:

Used Space 54,501,568,512 bytes 50.7GB

Free Space 585,630,941,376 bytes 545GB

Capacity 640,132,575,232 bytes 596GB

How come the descreptency between the bytes and the GB. Everywhere it's showing as a 596GB Hard drive.

I am using Windows Vista Premium 64 bit with SP1.

Can anyone tell me the reason for this?
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