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Less memory than I bought
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Anyone knows why in my settings shows that my notebooks has a total memory storage of 457 GB, although I bought a 512 GB.
The app My Dell shows 512 GB, but Windows shows that it came with only 457 GB, and 111 GB already was occupied. So actually I only have 345 GB available. Anyone can explain me why is that, and if is it correct, please?
ejn63
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August 31st, 2022 05:00
The drive manufacturers quote in decimal -- 1 decimal meg = 1000 bytes
Windows counts in binary -- 1 meg = 1024 bytes.
You lose about 7% of the decimal value, so you see about 476 G.
The space you see used is consumed by UEFI setup, recovery partitions, a system image and the operating system.