Hdd

[easyshare123]

Just a quick 1 i would like too know why does my computer harddrive only read 69.5 GB were it is an 80GB and on my laptop it has a 40GB hardrive but in my computer it only reads 32.9 GB.

Im lost

Dan

 

[LTSPLAY]

they never are what they state on the box.... there is always a percentage for the operating of the hdd the bigger the hdd the more you loose. my 320GB says i only have 298

 

[The_Other_One]

To make more profits, HD manufacturers advertise one gigabyte as 1,000,000,000bits. So a 40GB actually is 40000000000/(1024*1024*1024) = 37.3GB. Any additional storage missing is probably from a recovery partition. My laptop's 60GB drive has a 5GB partition to restore Windows and all original software.

 

[lhstud10]

you have it all but some is kept in "reserve" to restore your comp. and other essential stuff.