Asked ? a couple minutes ago. Worded it wrong. My 40GB hard drive shows only 37.2 when reloading the windows.?

Question

If I have a hard drive and it is 40GB, when I reload the windows and format it, etc... shouldn't I still have a 40GB hard drive?? It says that there is only 37.2 GB of space left... this is not with different partitions... I am loading it onto only one partition... Not sure if I am explaining this right... I do know though, there is only 37.2 GB of space... Where is the rest of the 40GB?

Answer 1

all of the hard drive, flash drive, and all of memory cards here in the entire earth is always incomplete, always not exact of their memory... when you purchase one of these it is not exact always even the iPods, iPhone etc...

Answer 2

Dood, that difference is likely due to the fact that a kilobyte can be described as 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes. Depending on who's doing the measuring and how they're doing it you'll end up with different numbers.

I wouldn't sweat it too much. It's pretty normal that a "37.2 GB drive" is really "40" if you take into account the thousands of 24-bit bits that are included, etc.

Answer 3

Windows is using that 2.8 GB of space. Any computer that has an operating system on it has to make room for the operating software or your computer does not work. You had to buy the full 40 GB and you also had to buy the software to go with it. You allow them to use part of that storage that you paid for to make the computer work. I don't know of any thing in the world that allows you to buy 40 GB and have that all to yourself and also have someplace for the software to go. Unless of course you plan to make the hard drive and the software yourself.

Answer 4

most hard drives are like that they say 40 gigs but arnt really for some reason, my hard drive should be 500gbs but only shows up as 465 at least you only have a loss of 3 gigs im missiing 35 lol