2006-12-07 04:50:44 · 14 answers · asked by chinu s 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
The space that you dont see on the hard drive is utilized for high memory usage applications, like graphics, etc. This is called virtual memory. Because its reserved separately for virtual memory its not seen on the computer but is actually there
2006-12-07 04:56:22 · answer #1 · answered by shree 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The way the vendors usually spec out the hard drive capacity would be that it will hold 80,000,000,000 bytes of data or 80 Gig. The way the OS figures it out is 80,000,000,000 / 1024 or 78,125,000 Gig. So what we have is a discrepancy of how 1k of data is represented. There is also a small amount of overhead that is needed to store information about your hard drive like the MBR (Master Boot Record) and other info that comes out as well.
2006-12-07 04:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by Dilbert's Desk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is normal. I have a 60gb 7200rpm in my laptop and yet when I click on my computer icon and see the disk space it only reads about 50gb. So I called DELL that I ordered a 60gb not a 50gb. They said that it is correct. It is a 60gb hard drive a portion of it roughly 8gb gets allocated for other things. Can't remember the exact details.
2006-12-07 04:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by Wibble 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows Hot Fix LBA addressing. It's a fix for the Bios to recognize large Hard Drives. You may need to go to the Manufactors website and see if thier is a BIOS flash update.
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2006-12-07 04:53:07 · answer #4 · answered by A+ Certified Professional 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that the manufactures are outright lying, instead they are taking advantage of the fact that there's no standard set for how to describe a drives storage capacity. Also, space is lost in formatting and bad sectors.
2006-12-07 05:08:02 · answer #5 · answered by Pey 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-18 09:15:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Operating System takes some amount of bytes for virtual memory so that's why full space(80 GB) u didn't find in the computer
2006-12-07 04:56:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, what is it, the say 80gig unformatted. That means there's a disc. Like a normal CD, and it's got loads of lines around it, probable around 150, and the disc is cut into about 20 or 30 segments. So, each part of the line in each segment has it's own address. Doing that, and making it so the disc can remember where each address is, saves it onto the actual disc itself. So, that is where some of it goes, it gets formatted, essential data added onto it.
2006-12-07 04:54:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
your computers full memory is not shown b-coz a fixed % of each drive is reserved for its recycle bin or backup files.
you can reduce this backup size by right click on recyclebin n then open properties n change;but its highly recommended to select high bin size for default or c drive.
you can also access backup files by typing ---
e:\system volume information
in run
remember u cant delete change file in last folder of this folder
2006-12-07 05:04:11 · answer #9 · answered by apurv_shankey 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You never get the full storage, some little space always is used by the drive for the drive ID and track (format) index space
2006-12-07 04:56:12 · answer #10 · answered by ganja_claus 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋