80gig hard drivereads 76 gig

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Headtheball

I have just bought a freecom 80gig external hd but when I check to see how
much space is on it it says 76gig why is this? There are no files on it yet
 
B

Billy

Headtheball said:
I have just bought a freecom 80gig external hd but when I check to see how
much space is on it it says 76gig why is this? There are no files on it yet
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As Kenny said, this is normal. My 80 GB drive shows 74.53 GB and all
three 120 GB drives show 111.79 GB in disk management.
 
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Guest

Hard drive manufacturers call 1,000,000,000 a Gigabyte
(because it makes the drive sound bigger)
Almost all programs use 1,073,741,827 (1024*1024*1024)

So, an 80Gb drive is "really" 74.5 Gb according to Windows.

Also, partition tables, file tables, directories, and various hidden overhead
(recycle bin, system restore info...) take up some space.

|I have just bought a freecom 80gig external hd but when I check to see how
|much space is on it it says 76gig why is this? There are no files on it yet
 

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