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HARD DISK SIZE

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by purcy, Jan 2, 2007.

  1. purcy

    purcy Member

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    The size of one of my hard drives differs with the actual capacity by 9 GB. This is a significant amount of space. Is this normal, or are there some hidden folders/files that I cannot see that are taking up this space?
     
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    are you using windows? in windows they use 1024 for computing instead of 1000. for example if you have 120Gbytes (120,000,000,000 bytes) windows

    120,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 117187500 Kbytes
    117187500 Kbytes / 1024 = 114440.91 Mbytes
    114440.91 Mbytes / 1024 = 111.75 Gbytes

    so your 120Gbytes harddisk will only be 111.75 in windows.
     
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    That's it. Thanks mate.
     

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