Hard Drive Space

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A recently purchased a Dell 4800. Running P4, 512mb, and 80Gb hard drive.
When I click on the C Drive, the pie chart only shows the hard drive as 74Gb.
Can anyone tell me when my other six gig is?

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It is a hidden partition that contains recovery information, most likely..


"Sinca's" <Sincas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>A recently purchased a Dell 4800. Running P4, 512mb, and 80Gb hard drive.
> When I click on the C Drive, the pie chart only shows the hard drive as
> 74Gb.
> Can anyone tell me when my other six gig is?

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Hi

Formatting will probably take 6 Gbs. From a command prompt type

cd\
dir /a/s

to see how much free disk space you have.

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Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
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"Sinca's" <Sincas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:77CE440E-72AB-49DA-B54D-7BB6841DA7E4@microsoft.com...
>A recently purchased a Dell 4800. Running P4, 512mb, and 80Gb hard drive.
> When I click on the C Drive, the pie chart only shows the hard drive as
> 74Gb.
> Can anyone tell me when my other six gig is?

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The closest power of 2 to 80 gigabytes is 68 and the next is 137 gigabyte.
Your answer is incorrect. IE, how do you get to 76 gigabyte using the power of
2?
"NoNoBadDog!" <mypants_bjsledgeATpixi.com> wrote in message
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> It has to do with the different ways that a "Gigabyte" can be defined. Dell
> advertises it as an 80GB drive, defining a GB as 1,000 MB. They therefore
> base a Megabyte as 1,000 bytes. In the real world, and the way a computer
> sees it, a Megabyte is 1,024 Bytes. There is where the discrepancy occurs.
> For every Megabyte, there is a difference of 24 bytes. The larger the disc,
> the greater the disparity. Blame the way that Marketing is allowed to 'lie"
> in this country. You should see the drive as about 76.4 GB.
>
>
> Bobby
>
> "Sinca's" <Sincas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:77CE440E-72AB-49DA-B54D-7BB6841DA7E4@microsoft.com...
>>A recently purchased a Dell 4800. Running P4, 512mb, and 80Gb hard drive.
>> When I click on the C Drive, the pie chart only shows the hard drive as
>> 74Gb.
>> Can anyone tell me when my other six gig is?
>
>