Quick Question about my hard drive

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  1. cheevs

    cheevs Member

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    i recently just bought a new latptop from dell, the inspiron 9400 and i ordered a 7200 rpm 80 gig hard drive. Now when i recieved the computer i checked the properties through windows and noticed that it only said that i have 60 gigs of space (52.7) to be exacand gthen i checked the bios and the bios said that i have a 78 gig hard drive.


    P.S i have two hard drives one if labeled back up and only holds 16 gigs making the combinded total around 68-70 gigs. Where did the other 10 go???
     
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    You tend to lose some drive space to overhead. Its typical for all drives to report slightly smaller than advertised. Everything is good, so dont worry.

    ~Rich
     

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