i recently purchased a 750 gb external hard drive, but then when i checked the properties of the hard drive itself with my pc, it only has roughly 700 gb.
2007-08-03 17:49:38 · 4 answers · asked by Vokram 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Its complicated to explain but the conversion to what hard drive size was built on (1024MB) and what binary uses (1000) usually takes away a good chunk of your hard drive space. So when windows converts it to binary, 24MB are taken away for every Gigabyte. Thats a very, very rough way of putting, but still u get the idea. The only way to reduce the chunk taken off is to partion the Hard drive into maybe 3 or 4 different partions, then u wont lose as much space as windows will see each of those partions as a whole separate HD taking less space off per GB. Again this is only what ive learned but my specialty is in hard ware so u may want to wait for some other answers. And u can use Partion Magic to partion the drive, google it
2007-08-03 17:57:45 · answer #1 · answered by thomas b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A portion of the hard disk is reserved for record keeping purposed (in your case about 50 gigabytes) The record keeping (file tables) keep track of where you data is on the disk and associate it with it's filenames, size, etc.
2007-08-03 17:53:01 · answer #2 · answered by mdigitale 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you have 50 GB unpartitioned space?
go to control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management
from computer management, under the storage console tree, go to disk management, take a view for the harddisk space
2007-08-03 17:55:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tis is howit works it is actually 750gb but with setting you loose a part ov it.. iu have a 10g it woud read 9.something.. that how hard disk works... so without the setting u wud actually get the actual size
2007-08-03 18:00:12 · answer #4 · answered by xplicit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋