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    Is this normal?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Rcervantes, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. Rcervantes

    Rcervantes Notebook Guru

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    Is this normal? I have a 100gb harddrive but its showing 93gb.

    PS: I need help deleting an Old Programs file folder from when I upgraded to Vista Business. I already deleted the Windows.old folder by going into disk clean up, but now i need help deleting the old programs file folder thanks.
     
    Rcervantes, Aug 11, 2007
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    Yes it is normal!! Windows and the people who sell have different ideas!!
     
    baddogboxer, Aug 11, 2007
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    Rcervantes Notebook Guru

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    lol so i should go by how many bytes not by how many gb right? And I don't understand how I already used up 28gb of hard drive space already.
     
    Rcervantes, Aug 11, 2007
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  4. Thomas

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    manus say this
    1GB=1000MB
    when its really like this
    1GB=1024MB
     
    Thomas, Aug 11, 2007
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  5. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    whats wrong baddog?
     
    Thomas, Aug 11, 2007
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    the 28 used is vista itself around 8 and then its the stuff in the program files probably
     
    INCSlayer, Aug 11, 2007
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    Yep, normal. I have a 120GB HDD but it shows around 110GB
     
    allan_huang, Aug 11, 2007
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