i have a 40 Gb hdd from retail store but there is only 37 GB actually...i though it was becuz of all the junk they installed in there....Yesturday, i got a 80GB WD hdd and when i installed it, it is listed as 74.5GB.....i want my other 5Gig....is ther any ways to get it?
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No, you can't get it back.
HD makers calculate it differently than what shows in Windows and also some space is used to manage partition and format information.
Keep in mind, Mr. Elmo, that hard drives are not made by computer programmers. They are made by profit hungry companies.
You and I (well I don't know about you) know that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes. A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes. A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes...etc... Windows sees it like that too...
However, a hard drive manufacturer sees a kilobyte as 1000 bytes, a megabyte as 1000 kilobytes, and a gigabyte as 1000 megabytes.
Get it?
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Same here. It's normal, nothing to worry about.Originally posted by Mr. Elmo@28 January 2004 - 20:49
i have a 40 Gb hdd from retail store but there is only 37 GB actually...
k thank you for the replyies...krack...whos the girl in avatar?
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Thats what I keep telling everyone, because of the 24MB difference in the metric GB and the Binary GB that you lose that space, but people keep talking about its being used be windows, etc etc. Ugh. If the BIOS Shows is as 37 Freaking GB, then i think its beause of the Binary/Metric Idea, of course, that just might be me.Originally posted by adamp2p@28 January 2004 - 23:58
Keep in mind, Mr. Elmo, that hard drives are not made by computer programmers. They are made by profit hungry companies.
You and I (well I don't know about you) know that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes. A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes. A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes...etc... Windows sees it like that too...
However, a hard drive manufacturer sees a kilobyte as 1000 bytes, a megabyte as 1000 kilobytes, and a gigabyte as 1000 megabytes.
Get it?
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Kyla Cole.Originally posted by Mr. Elmo@28 January 2004 - 21:12
k thank you for the replyies...krack...whos the girl in avatar?
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Hey, KrackHead2k... That's off topic. This is HardwareWorld.
J/k.
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Didn't think he would mind, its his topic, and he did ask me.
I couldn't resist, I just love those eyes.
Won't happen again.
I suppose you might get some new hardware if you look at that pic for too long...Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@29 January 2004 - 06:43
Hey, KrackHead2k... That's off topic. This is HardwareWorld.
J/k.
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