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Anonymous
(Unregistered)Sat 14-Nov-09 00:27:12
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can this be right


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My laptop with win 7 installed shows that the capacity of the hard disk is 283 GB. however the hard disk size is 320 GB. Do these figures make sense? I know formating will take some GBs, but surely not this much. Is there a way of verifying these figures.
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(deleted) Sat 14-Nov-09 00:37:53
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Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive under the heading Capacity measurements.
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(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sat 14-Nov-09 02:24:48
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Also Win 7 has a hidden partition for sys files but think its only a couple of hundred meg.

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(experienced) Sat 14-Nov-09 02:32:35
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Check My Computer/Manage/Disk Management that you haven't any unallocated space.

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(knowledge is power) Sat 14-Nov-09 13:10:32
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In reply to a post by Anonymous:
My laptop with win 7 installed shows that the capacity of the hard disk is 283 GB. however the hard disk size is 320 GB. Do these figures make sense? I know formating will take some GBs, but surely not this much. Is there a way of verifying these figures.

My 320GB hard disks show as 298GB, 283 does seem slightly low, even allowing the other partition Win7 creates.

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(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sat 14-Nov-09 13:48:42
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In reply to a post by Banger:
Also Win 7 has a hidden partition for sys files but think its only a couple of hundred meg.


Also the manufactures of the laptop can have a hidden partition to store the drivers and a uninstalled copy of windows to restore if things go wrong.


the windows 7 hidden partition is more for EFI, when it become more popular I think

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Anonymous
(Unregistered)Sat 14-Nov-09 21:32:50
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you are right about the figures. after going to my computer>manage disk etc, there seem to be 14.65 GB unallocated. However I cannot delete it. Also I cannot extend the C drive to swallow it , the extend option is greyed out. Any ideas how to claim this 14 GB.It must have been allocated by Dell on installing Vista ( the previous OS).
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