Hi all,
I got a new computer a few weeks ago and was looking around today and
found that the hard drive says that its capacity is 71GB and I bought an
80 GB hard drive. I contacted support and they said that there is a
utility in System Restore to reinstall Windows that is 4 - 5 GB. Also:
Most operating systems define a hard disk drive's capacity using
*binary* or *base-2* mathematics. This translates to 1 gigabyte
(*GB*) equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes. This is the correct value when
using *binary* or *base-2* mathematics.
However, hard disk drive manufacturers define drive sizes using
*base-10* mathematics, in which 1 GB is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes
(rather than the 1,073,741,824 bytes, as listed above).
This discrepancy in reporting drive sizes (*base-2* vs. *base-10*)
may lead you to believe that you have a hard disk drive of less than
expected capacity if you compare the figure reported by the
operating system with the figure reported by your documentation,
although the actual hard drive size is identical. Microsoft^®
Windows^® simply counts the size differently, and will report a
different, slightly smaller, figure.
One would think that it would be made clear when someone has purchased a
computer that an 80 GB hard drive only has a capacity of 71 GB . . .
Does anyone have any opinions? Are these valid arguments?
TIA,
Riva
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