Hard Drive Space

[Guest]

A recently purchased a Dell 4800. Running P4, 512mb, and 80Gb hard drive.
When I click on the C Drive, the pie chart only shows the hard drive as 74Gb.
Can anyone tell me when my other six gig is?

 

[Mike H]

It is a hidden partition that contains recovery information, most likely..

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

It has to do with the different ways that a "Gigabyte" can be defined. Dell
advertises it as an 80GB drive, defining a GB as 1,000 MB. They therefore
base a Megabyte as 1,000 bytes. In the real world, and the way a computer
sees it, a Megabyte is 1,024 Bytes. There is where the discrepancy occurs.
For every Megabyte, there is a difference of 24 bytes. The larger the disc,
the greater the disparity. Blame the way that Marketing is allowed to 'lie"
in this country. You should see the drive as about 76.4 GB.


Bobby

 

[Guest]

Thanks, my guess it is a combination of both answers therefore only showing
about 74Gb. I appreciate your swift responses.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Formatting will probably take 6 Gbs. From a command prompt type

cd\
dir /a/s

to see how much free disk space you have.

 

[Tom]

I think you should learn what sizes represent the terms you use, before you continue to confuse others.

 

[Unknown]

The closest power of 2 to 80 gigabytes is 68 and the next is 137 gigabyte.
Your answer is incorrect. IE, how do you get to 76 gigabyte using the power of
2?