MY lenavo desktop has a cap of 80GB but "MY COMPUTER" indicates local disc (C) cap as 34.1 & local disk(D) cap as 35.4. Why this differance and why there are two local discs.
2006-09-03 03:06:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It's raw capacity is 80GB, but some portion is kept out to manage manufacturing errors of unavailability of media. also some companies round off to 1000s while calculating capacity.
2006-09-03 03:12:02 · answer #1 · answered by ri_ma_bo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer listed above about the amount of a binary gigabyte is correct. However, in your case, your hard drive has been partitioned into two partitions. You will still never have a true "80 gigs" because of the way it formats, but that doesn't have anything to do with your problem at the moment, and neither does the OS or system files. It's simply been split in two.
2006-09-03 03:53:55 · answer #2 · answered by Rodney L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 80 gb referrs to the raw, unformatted hard drive size. Available space is slightly reduced during formatting which maps out the hard drive into sectors for data storage. This process effectively defines where the data for each program is placed. The fact that you have a c drive and d drive could be either a hard drive with two partitions or you have two hard drives. This could be determined by looking in the system bios general settings.
2006-09-03 04:20:59 · answer #3 · answered by black dog 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some space is left for "very special " System files and hence you are not seeing the total of these two as equal to 80GB.
2006-09-03 03:19:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the disk was set up it was partioned this way. Before you format your disk you partition it. Questions will pop up asking you how much you want to put in each partition.
2006-09-03 03:13:40 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If u r using earlier ver of win u can see the hard disk partitions in disk management.right click my computer-select manage
2006-09-04 08:16:11 · answer #6 · answered by venky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the operating system is taking up the difference
2006-09-03 03:13:57 · answer #7 · answered by saquib M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the operating system is taking up the difference.
2006-09-03 03:09:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somehow, someone has formatted your hard drive into two partitions.
2006-09-03 03:14:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wrt hd 1gb=1024mb but not 1000mb,this anamaly cause hdd capacity less.
2006-09-03 17:08:45 · answer #10 · answered by nc j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋