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October 20th, 2006 19:00

HD 60Gb? or 50Gb?

I configured my M1210 with 60Gb HD 7200rpm. When I go check my C: Drive for properties it shows me that I have 49Gb capacity. There are no other drive available except my DVD drive.

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1. Am I shortchanged by 10Gb
2. Based on below, it seems drive is partitioned by so much, yet, if I go check My Computer the partitioned drive do not show
3. If it is truly partitioned how would I have it shown in My Computer

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Hitachi HTS721060G9SA00
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 54.49 GB (58,506,416,640 bytes)
Total Cylinders 7,113
Total Sectors 114,270,345
Total Tracks 1,813,815
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 47.03 MB (49,319,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 49.66 GB (53,324,490,240 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 49,351,680 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 4.77 GB (5,124,349,440 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 53,373,841,920 bytes

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October 21st, 2006 20:00

A 60G drive will show up as about 54 gigs to Windows because of the larger binary gig Windows uses (vs. the decimal one the 60G is quoted in). Subtract the Dell restore and diagnostic partition and you have what you see as free.
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