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i mean, i have an 80 GB Hdisk but i can only use 74 gigs of them...
Where the hell did the 6 gigs go? thanks...

2006-11-16 03:34:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet Hardware Desktops

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here should help ya....

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/support/faqs/faqs_20050422_0000115206.htm

another website.

http://www.pcmech.com/newsletter/viewtip.php?tipid=620

2006-11-16 03:47:03 · answer #1 · answered by desmond_marco 2 · 0 0

Your drive holds roughly 80 billion bytes, the problem is, that hard drive manufactures consider a gigabyte to be 1 billion bytes, but the operating system considers a gigabyte to be 1,073,741,824 bytes.

Sorry to say, that 6 gigs was never there to begin with.

2006-11-16 13:06:55 · answer #2 · answered by Christopher J 4 · 0 0

All HDD's allow so much space for caching,some 2Mb,some 4Mb,some 8Mb,etc. The numbers you see as far as capacity may be measured by the OS in binary rather than hexidecimal. This help? ;-)=

2006-11-16 11:45:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jcontrols 6 · 0 0

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