if i have a 250GB HDD on a Dell INSPIRON E6320, why does GParted say it has "232.89GiB unallocated"?

Antonio Carmello

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It is not my laptop, but am working with someone to get a new operating system installed and the decision was made to simply wipe the drive and do a clean installation of Windows 7.l We are using GParted to inspect and partition previous to install and it shows the drive as having 232.89 GiB available with 255 heads 63 Sectors/track, 30401 Cylinders. Total sectors: 4883971 with each sector size at 512.
What happened to the other 17.11GB and how can i get that space BACK??