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My Hard Disk doesnt show full storage capacity

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ariesleader

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I bought a new gateway laptop, has 100gig harddrive, but it shows as 93gig, I thought it should be somewhere like 97 or something ..

Added to that there is only basic stuff that is put on it and it says 88gig of free ... means 5 gb is filled but infact when i checked the size of all the files in C drive combined comes to 2.5 Gb .. so where does the other 2.5 gb go .... Guys any idea abt this ........
 
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Originally posted by: ariesleader
I bought a new gateway laptop, has 100gig harddrive, but it shows as 93gig, I thought it should be somewhere like 97 or something ..

Added to that there is only basic stuff that is put on it and it says 88gig of free ... means 5 gb is filled but infact when i checked the size of all the files in C drive combined comes to 2.5 Gb .. so where does the other 2.5 gb go .... Guys any idea abt this ........
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Since you purchased it through gateway it's quite possible they preload their drives with some sort of recovery partition filled with tools to recover data in the event your OS craps out on you. As far as it being 2.5GB large I am not sure, but remember that Windows will always measure HD size differently than HD manufacturers advertise it as.

 
Yaa I did partition ....... But no use .... So maybe .. it is supposed to be that way ........ Any way thanks for u r reponse 🙂
 
since none of you tools answered his question, i will.

system restore and recycle bin reserve space on the hard drive in order to function properly. you can adjust both of those settings and regain some or all of the 2.5 GB that appears to be missing.
 
er hard disk manufacturers sell HDD as 1Gb = 1000Mb

computers dont do decimal, they do binary, and in binary the closest to 1000 is 1024

so in windows 1Gb - 1024Mb

u havent lost space its just whats classed as a gig is bigger therefore u have less of them
 
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
er hard disk manufacturers sell HDD as 1Gb = 1000Mb

computers dont do decimal, they do binary, and in binary the closest to 1000 is 1024

so in windows 1Gb - 1024Mb

u havent lost space its just whats classed as a gig is bigger therefore u have less of them
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The hard drive is nominally 100 gigabytes (100 000 000 000 bytes), which when divided by 1073741824 bytes (1 gibibyte - which is how the PC calculates storage space) gives exactly 93.1322574615478515625 gigibytes. Close enough?
 
stop with the hd size threads

i can't take it anymore

next n00b that posts one of these should be made an example
 
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