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Hi, I have a C2S that I believe has a 120 gig hard drive but when I check it in “my computer” it shows only a 102 gig drive. Please enlighten me. Thanks co2laser
Hi co2laser.
Yes it is confusing - have a look at the paragraph "Consumer Confusion" here: -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
Basically, your drive has 120,000,000,000 bytes capacity.
Unfortunately, computers cannot count properly because Windows uses the binary system to count. The nearest it can get to a KB of 1,000 bytes is 1,024 (two to the power of 10).
So Windows measures a kilobyte as 1,024 bytes.
So windows measures a Gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes (two to the power of 30)
So Windows measures your 120,000,000,000 byte drive as 111.75GB
9GB is the hidden Recovery Partition.
Thank you for your reply Blencogo a bit complicated but I feel better now. co2laser.