VGN-FE41S Hard Drive Size

[Aphasia]

Hi,

I have recently purchased and recieved (from an online retailer) an FE41S and the hard drive is 140Gb instead of the specified 160Gb. Is this normal? What should I do?

Regards

Richard

[Thalamus.]

Hi Aphasia,

Welcome to Club Vaio..

The difference in hard drive size is due to the different way manufactures and Microsoft report the sizes..

Manufacturers use the SI scale for example 1KB = 1000 bytes

Microsoft, ie windows XP, use the binary, for example 1KB = 1024 bytes

Therefore manufactures 160 GB hard drive = 160,000,000,000 bytes

Whereas MS 160 GB hard drive = 149 GB

example 160GB manufactures size converted to MS binary scale...

160Gb = 160,000,000,000

/1024 = 156250000 kilobytes
/1024 = 152587.89 megabytes
/1024 = 149 Gigabytes

Also you have a hidden recovery partition, which is probably 7.6+ GB, which takes you down to 141.4GB, the remaining space is then taken up file allocation, etc...

So to answer your question there is nothing wrong with size of the hard drive on your Vaio, it just a difference in reporting, this is same with all manufacturers...