I bought a laptop and it is supposed to have 1 gb of ram and 160gb harddrivespace but it only has 864mb 146gb?

Question

why

Answer 1

sounds normal - the actual available useable space is never at that level. Additionally, the space 'missing' on your hard drive is probably because it's been 'partitioned' - this splits the hard drive into 2 virtual discs, and the smaller part is generally used as a recovery partition with the installation files incase the system fails.

Answer 2

The deficiency in the ram count is due to the fact that approximately 128 megs of system ram are being shared to the video card.

The hard drive is a bit more difficult to explain, but.....


--> UNDERSTANDING GIGABYTES
When people buy computers, they're told they're getting a hard drive of
a certain size--80 gigabytes, perhaps. But when they check the computer
they find only 74GB. Where did the other 6GB go?

This is the difference between marketing and math. As far as marketers
are concerned, 80 billion bytes is 80GB. But it's not. A gigabyte is
1.074 billion bytes (2 to the power of 30). If you divide 80 by 1.074,
you'll get 74.6. That's the true number of gigabytes.

These round numbers are fairly easy to remember. A kilobyte is 2 to
the power of 10 (or 2^10), a megabyte is 2^20, and a terabyte (1.0995
trillion bytes!) is 2^40.

Answer 3

I had this question pop into my head a while back when I bought my computer, too. The answer, I later realized, was that there is a certain amount of software that comes with the hard drive to begin with which takes up some of that space. Then the RAM is going to register as lower, as well, because when you use the computer you will need a certain amount of RAM to do it.
Before I realized this, I thought that I had not gotten my moneys worth.
I hope this helps!

Answer 4

well dud,,,your laptop really has 1 GB ram...coz there is no 864 MB ,,,,there's only 2,4,8,16,32,64,128.256.512. and 1 GB since the ram is above 512 so it's propoply 1 GB but it says 864MB coz the other Megas are being used....and the same thing for your hard deck,,,,,Note"the strongest reason for this is Viruses try to use a good Anti Virus program and Ram cleaner" and the best way to make sure is ..to go to start then Run..then type "dxdiag" and press enter for any help IM me,,,good luck....

Answer 5

Some of the resources are allocated to the system by default. The operating system and preinstalled software uses a good chunk of the hard drive space. Some of the memory may be shared with the graphics card.

The recovery partition usually takes up a few gigabytes.

Answer 6

this is an age old problem that has even been taken to court and settled (so do no go looking for your lawyer). Computers are done in base 2 while us humans work in base 10. The quick and dirty of what this means is this when you say 1K you mean 1000 when computer say 1K they mean 1024. manufacturers decided to start giving people the human sized versions of hardware and once it gets formatted and usable to computers you lose the difference in numbering. Search internet with keywords WD hard drive size lawsuit for more info. This applies to ram also.

Answer 7

each of these are factory shipped on the notebook, the lower number, 846MB for meory and the lower 146GB for Hard drive space is whats left after Windows runs its programs in the background and the space that you see for hard drive is after all of that trial and extra crap that Windows and companies put on (hint: by knowing how eachg applies and knowing about the programs, you can go to Unistall/Change and delete the program and its folders and reclaim disk space) hope this helps

Answer 8

dkn