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    1520 Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by haxor, Aug 4, 2007.

  1. haxor

    haxor Notebook Enthusiast

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    The main hard drive "OS" is 99.1GB and the "recovery" drive is 9.99GB. I ordered 120GB hard drive, am I missing 10GB or something?
     
    haxor, Aug 4, 2007
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  2. SteveJonesy

    SteveJonesy Notebook Evangelist

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    That sounds about right. Manufacuters routinely refer to a 1KB in decimal ie 1000 bytes but Windows uses binary where 1KB = 1024 bytes. You still have the same amount of hard drive space it's just represented differently.
     
    SteveJonesy, Aug 4, 2007
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  3. knightingmagic

    knightingmagic Notebook Deity

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    "120"GB hard drives come out to 111GB after the 1000/1024 discrepancy. Dell tacked on a recovery partition (which, if you have the disks, you can safely delete if you want), and a that media direct thingy.
     
    knightingmagic, Aug 4, 2007
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