Why is my i6000 100gb hard disk showing only 90 gb??? Pls enlightened me..

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Ok i've read in the faq that the hard disk is gonna show a little less than wat i ordered because of some windows equation things but this is not a little less.... its 10 gb Or is there a hidden recovery partition that i cant see like there is in some pc.     I have a Pentium M 730 1.60ghz 2mb Cache , 533 mhz bus and a 1 gig of ram

bacillus · Answer

yup, there is a hidden recovery partition of about 3Gb & a small diagnostics partition.

rickmktg · Answer

@travees wrote:

Ok i've read in the faq that the hard disk is gonna show a little less than wat i ordered because of some windows equation things but this is not a little less.... its 10 gb

Or is there a hidden recovery partition that i cant see like there is in some pc.

I have a Pentium M 730 1.60ghz 2mb Cache , 533 mhz bus and a 1 gig of ram

Using the Advanced Forum Search on the bottom of this page, you can quite easily find the answer to this often asked question. It's not a "windows equation", it's how the hard disk manufacturer's describe their drives. A 100 gb drive will read as 93gb (-7%), minus the restore partion = 90gb.

Message Edited by rickmktg on 03-31-2005 10:08 AM

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