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I just purchase a dell inspiron 1410 without OS. On bios, it shows 320 gig of hard disk space. After i install windows 7 ultimate, only 299 total hard disk space is shown. I only got one partition. I run a partition manager, it shows only 299, without any partition that has the other 20gig. Can somebody try to explain what had happen? What will i do so i can use all of the 320 gig. | ||||
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The BIOS (or the HD manufacturer) is measuring with 1 GB = 10^9 bytes = 1.000.000.000 bytes. The Windows file dialog seems to count in GibiBytes, where 1 GiB = 2^30 bytes = 1.073.741.824 bytes Checking the numbers, 299 * 2^30 is approximately 320 * 10^9. | ||||
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Oh jeez, are schools out early this year? Basically a 320GB disk isn't 320GB, it's to do with the mixed use of 1000 and 1024 (2^10) between marketing and operating system, never expect the full amount ok. And this wasn't remotely server-related, be aware of the FAQ please, you'd get a better answer on superuser.com. | |||||||||||
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as @Chopper3 and @Anders said, this could be due to mathematics differences. | |||
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