My 80GB Western Digital hard drive is formatted but I didn't get 80GB, but only got about 74... where did the other 6gb go?
2007-02-14 08:41:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Actually the reason is a Gigabyte is 1024 Megabytes, however hard drive manufacturers decided to base their drives sizes on 1000 Megabytes, thus accounting for the missing gigabytes. I believe the manufacturers were sued because of this and not have a disclaimer on the packages that state that actual formatted size may be less than indicated... or something to that effect!
2007-02-14 08:49:44 · answer #1 · answered by ghowriter 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
when you install a new hard drive to your computer wather it may be that you may install a new operating system or just keeping it as a slave drive you will never see the full amount of the disk
so in this case your 80 gig is now 74 gigs cause the 6 gigs are being used as a system table or a MFT all hard drives must have a MFT to acollate the space needed to keep some type of an order of the stuff you may want to put in that hard drive
so this may suck but its like that on all drives
2007-02-14 08:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by naro007 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well the hard drive manufacturers calculate a gigabyte as 1,000,000 bytes, your computer calculates it is more like 1,024,000 bytes. So you lose about 24Mb per Gigabyte.
Also, there is some room on the hard drive used for the partition table and formatting so you lose some there.
If your system manufacturer uses a recovery partition, instead of a recovery disk, you lose another couple of gigs of data that is used to store the recovery information.
This is just the way it is.
2007-02-14 08:45:58 · answer #3 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The 6GBs are probably recovery apps or part of what is left of your Operating System. It is never the exact number like the company says. Don't always expect all of your GBs.
2007-02-14 08:48:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Formatting and optimization software.
2007-02-14 08:48:13 · answer #5 · answered by Santa Barbara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somebody has probably loaded some naughty images on a secured area of the disk. Do you share this computer? Are you SURE you don't share this computer?
2007-02-14 08:48:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Every storage device is loaded with pre-software so it is readable and such...
2007-02-14 09:03:51 · answer #7 · answered by tazzaler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its for the pre-loaded files already on there. Usually recovery software.
2007-02-14 08:44:03 · answer #8 · answered by matt_archbold2002 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I think the other 6gb got lost when your purchase was scanned by the LED at the store and the gigowatts sucked up the spare gigs.
2007-02-14 08:48:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
same thing with my ipod its 4 GB but i only have 3.86
2007-02-14 08:48:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anna, 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋