Booting from a 98 startup floppy and changing to a freshly formatted 80gb with no OS installed will usually show some 80,000,000,000+ number for available drive space. When in Windows a portion of the drive is taken up for partition information, master boot record, and with XP the restoration cab files along with the space used for the installation itself. The big difference there is how Windows reads drive space after creation and format of a single primary partition. Dos on the other hand uses only a few mb for the small amount of space used there plus is about as simplified as you can get.
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