Re: Inspiron Hard drive capacity query

Not really a different constant. It reports a calculation based on Base 2.

You can google it.

Regardless, you got the 40 gb drive.

Tom
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MZB.
If you did not have the restore and diagnostic partitions on your HDD,
Windows will report a single partitioned 40GB HDD, as having approximately
39.06GB free space. Windows uses a different constant for the GB value.

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"Jay B" <jayb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i've seen the restore partition take up to 5 gb.
go to mycomputer, manage, disk management and that will tell you what
size hard drive you have and how its partitioned.

MZB wrote:
> I ordered my notebook supposedly with a 40 gig hard drive.
>
> When I check on My Computer, it says 33.9 GB capacity.
>
> Is this the wrong size hard drive?
>
> MB
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>
>


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