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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.
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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.