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February 15th, 2008 16:00
HARD DRIVE NOT 320GB!
Hi all, i just got an inspiron 530 and the hard drive shows as 288gb, is this the usual size they put in for 320gb?Also every time i turn on an extra gb seems to have been used up,it has gone from 253gb to 244 in 4 days and i aint put much onto the machine,maybe only half a gig!
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keithg2
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February 15th, 2008 17:00
I have a Samsung and a Seagate drive in a RAID 1 in my Inspiron 530s. Both are 320GB drives and they both show 298GB.
You might want to check your system restore settings and see if that is causing the used space.
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February 15th, 2008 17:00
Many thanks,Dev Mgr,that accounts for the hard drive sizing.
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February 15th, 2008 17:00
1 Kilobyte = 1024 bytes
1 Megabyte = 1024 Kilobytes
1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes
So 1 Gigabyte = 1024x1024x1024 bytes = 1073741824 bytes.
As harddrive sizes are in billions of bytes, 320,000,000,000 / 1073741824 = 298.02 GB.
Then Dell has the recovery partition for a quick restore of the OS to the factory fresh OS image.
I couldn't tell you what data you put on your harddrive to lose 9GB in 4 days.