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12-23-2007
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| | missing HD space I have bought a new laptop which says it has 1GB RAM, 120GB but when I go to computer it shows on C drive 60% free out of 51.8 GB and on D partition 100% free out of 51.6GB. I am wondering whether the manufacturer telling me that the HD is 103.4GB. Could anyone please tell me whether this is normal? |
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12-23-2007
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| | Re: missing HD space Hi, To a drive manufacturer, 120GB is 120,000,000,000 bytes, with a single GB as 1,000,000,000 using base10 math. To a computer, that uses base2 or binary math, a single GB is defined as 1024x1024x1024 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So, a pc sees the drive as 120,000,000,00/1,073,741,824 or 111.76GB. The additional missing 8GB may be part of your recovery partition, something very common with laptops. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "brummyfan" <brummyfan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:4F34E67D-9A40-4B92-AB15-05B5316A9882@xxxxxx Quote: >I have bought a new laptop which says it has 1GB RAM, 120GB but when I go >to > computer it shows on C drive 60% free out of 51.8 GB and on D partition > 100% > free out of 51.6GB. I am wondering whether the manufacturer telling me > that > the HD is 103.4GB. Could anyone please tell me whether this is normal? |
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12-23-2007
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| | Re: missing HD space "Rick Rogers" wrote: Quote: > Hi, > > To a drive manufacturer, 120GB is 120,000,000,000 bytes, with a single GB as > 1,000,000,000 using base10 math. To a computer, that uses base2 or binary > math, a single GB is defined as 1024x1024x1024 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 > bytes. So, a pc sees the drive as 120,000,000,00/1,073,741,824 or 111.76GB. > The additional missing 8GB may be part of your recovery partition, something > very common with laptops. > > -- > Best of Luck, > > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org > My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > > "brummyfan" <brummyfan@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:4F34E67D-9A40-4B92-AB15-05B5316A9882@xxxxxx Quote: > >I have bought a new laptop which says it has 1GB RAM, 120GB but when I go > >to > > computer it shows on C drive 60% free out of 51.8 GB and on D partition > > 100% > > free out of 51.6GB. I am wondering whether the manufacturer telling me > > that > > the HD is 103.4GB. Could anyone please tell me whether this is normal? > Thank you Rick, I was worried that I paid too much for a 103GB laptop. |
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12-23-2007
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| | Re: missing HD space brummyfan wrote: Quote: > I have bought a new laptop which says it has 1GB RAM, 120GB but when > I go to computer it shows on C drive 60% free out of 51.8 GB and on D > partition 100% free out of 51.6GB. I am wondering whether the > manufacturer telling me that the HD is 103.4GB. Could anyone please > tell me whether this is normal? |
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