Were is the 5GB Harddrive space?

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Were is the 5GB Harddrive space?   My laptop is 60g harddrive. But after my formtting, install my own XP pro, I found this is noly 55xxxx mb on my laptop. Where is the left? Is it a hiden partition by the Dell set a Operating System? I don't want to use the dell offer operating System, How Can I delete the Dell Hiden partition? Get beck the left harddrive space?

rickmktg · Answer

@geekcu wrote:

Were is the 5GB Harddrive space?

My laptop is 60g harddrive. But after my formtting, install my own XP pro, I found this is noly 55xxxx mb on my laptop. Where is the left? Is it a hiden partition by the Dell set a Operating System? I don't want to use the dell offer operating System, How Can I delete the Dell Hiden partition? Get beck the left harddrive space?

Please don't post the same thing on different forums. Makes the volunteers waste their time answering questions already answered.

This question has been answer hundreds of times. 7% is due to the way hard drive manufacturer's report the size. A 60gb drive is really 55.8. Sounds like that's what you see. http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1024750

Your system has nothing hidden, the Restore Partition would be 3gb or so. Utilities, if installed, take like 40mb, not anything you notice.

geekcu · Answer

thanks your opinions

leduke30 · Answer

If you click on your Harddrive in My Computer and select Properties, you will see both Base-2 and Base-10 figures

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