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40 or so GB missing from my Hard Drive?

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February 28, 2014 9:07:57 PM

Like the title says im missing quite a bit of hard drive space. Ive used multiple programs and i cannot figure out where it is. My HDD should be 500 GB but it only says its 461 GB.

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February 28, 2014 9:23:01 PM

It's marketing thing, i also got only 931GB from 1TB
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February 28, 2014 9:23:25 PM

Nothing is wrong with your hard drive. This is because a while back HD manufacturers decided that Gigabyte=10^9 bytes instead of the conventionally used 2^30. The OS still reports sizes as 2^30 so it ends up being about 7% less than reported by the manufacturer.
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February 28, 2014 9:35:24 PM

oh ok . thanks guys, i guess i just must have never noticed it before.
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February 28, 2014 9:37:59 PM

postdubstepcore said:
oh ok . thanks guys, i guess i just must have never noticed it before.


You're welcome :)  if you look around you'll see, marketing is everywhere :D 
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