I have a 40gb hard drive but when i look in my computer to see the size it says there is only 38.2gb

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  1. raebie

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    I bought a pc 6 months ago it has a 40gb hard drive in it but when i check the size of the drive in my computer it says there is only 38.2gb why is that.What happened to the other 1.8gb of my c drive can anyone help with this issue
     
    raebie, Nov 25, 2006
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    do a properties on the drive & you'll see 2 sets of numbers of which 1 will show correct 40gig but both is right
     
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    its the OS it "secertly" makes a drive for files which you cant see if ur usin XP then it takes up that room for things which few ppl know
     
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    rudsta816, it is the size of the kilobytes as they are not 1000 bytes but 1024 bytes, so start adding them up.
     
    ddp, Nov 26, 2006
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    i know they are 1024 but the OS does take up space that the computer cannot allocate for cause ive had 2 hard drives in 1 with xp the other with a linux just for fun thats how i found out cause the linix said 40gigs for my xp HD just as the HD said on its cover
     
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    40,007,729,152 bytes 37.2gp

    ddp do the math that is my 40gig hdd total space
     
    rudsta816, Nov 26, 2006
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