Re: Inspiron Hard drive capacity query

For anyone interested,
Many HDD manufacturers uses the value of 1000MB for a GB.
(1000KB)³=1GB

Windows "reports" approx. 1073.74MB for a GB.
(1024KB)³=1GB in the Windows "environment".

Something similar can be said for cargo shippers, that carry goods by water. Many use the value of a "tonne" (long ton) which is approx. 2240 lbs. Where a "ton" in the US (also known internationally as a "short" ton) refers to 2000 lbs. So you can say that Windows reports the size of a HDD, using the "LONG" GB value.

I should have answered the OP question like this originally, so that this message thread will end, and would not go on and on. I hope I have accomplished that.

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"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:_FK6f.166158$xl6.138535@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
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> Is this the wrong size hard drive?
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> MB
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