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Comment from Adarious on 2008-04-11

2008-04-11T08:42:11Z

"We have just bought an 80Gb Dell Inspiron laptop. The disk properties states total 69Gb, which it says is 74,***,***. I could understand if it said 80,***,*** was 74Gb, but how can 80Gb capacity be claimed for our drive which is 11Gb short?"

Most Dell computer systems have a portion of the disk sectioned off..called a partition. They do this because they usually put system restore files in it, which include drivers and sometimes the OS as a cd/dvd image. So part of that space is likely that. The rest is likely taken up by Windows and windows related files ... and possibly by any pre-installed software/drivers.

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Comment from manish on 2006-11-03

2006-11-03T10:46:23Z

could you pls tell that when i delete any file and even remove it from recycle bin.....then using system restore ..i am able to bring it back...how does it work...are the files not deleted in reality?

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Comment from Nikki on 2006-10-31

2006-11-01T05:14:31Z

My computer has been messing up lately. Sometimes the internet would work and sometimes it won't. What is wrong with my computer? Also, my new computer (less then 6 months)started with 232 GB free space on my hard drive and some things have been downloaded but not much. These things that have been download have taken about 30 GB of free space on my hard drive. One day after i was finished using my computer i checked the free space and it had 202 GB of free space on my hard drive left. When i logged back on my computer the next day the free space on my hard drive was 70.5 Gb. How is this possible? Also what does System restore do? (Start, all programs, accessories, system tools then system restore) I have done this before and it loaded my info and all but the programs that i installed before the date selected. Does this take a large amount free space off my hard drive because when my computer shut down again i tried to restore it to an earlier date and it took hours to restore it, sometimes it just stops trying to restore my previous works, it says "needs more virtual memory". Please help. My computer is being stupid.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-08-15

2006-08-16T02:05:22Z

Well, for one thing, defragging does not free up disk space. That's not what it's for.

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Comment from heliodude on 2006-08-15

2006-08-16T01:36:20Z

what i would like to know is why would windows xp say theres 1 mb or so of free space when i defragged the crap out of it and transferred all the big programs and files to my other drive?

it don't make sense

Alan
http://www.helio.com

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Comment from Matt on 2006-05-27

2006-05-27T11:28:38Z

Thank you for the explanation Leo. I was also stumped to where my extra GB's had disappeared to.

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Comment from mifrah on 2006-04-21

2006-04-22T05:25:17Z

why there is no free space for me??i need extra space for my mail boxwhich is only 2MB. i need fast. do kindly give me free space or help me. thankyou for your co-operation

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Comment from ricky on 2006-04-20

2006-04-20T09:07:35Z

as i know... we define giga as 1000M, mega as 1000k and kilo as 1000
but pc define giga as 1024M, mega as 1024k and kilo as 1024

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Comment from Michael Fletcher on 2006-01-23

2006-01-23T16:58:33Z

We have just bought an 80Gb Dell Inspiron laptop. The disk properties states total 69Gb, which it says is 74,***,***. I could understand if it said 80,***,*** was 74Gb, but how can 80Gb capacity be claimed for our drive which is 11Gb short?

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Comment from Tom Barrister on 2006-01-21

2006-01-21T22:44:15Z

The 130gb limitation is due to lba limitations. Go here for help: http://www.48bitlba.com/

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Comment from Leo on 2006-01-09

2006-01-10T00:12:58Z

How did you "remove" them? Try emptying the recycle bin.

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Comment from toufeeq on 2006-01-09

2006-01-09T16:13:56Z

i put some gb size files in all of my drives but when i remove them there is no change in the space.instead of having 18.5 gb free i have only 1.8 gb free.please help.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-11-15

2005-11-16T04:17:37Z

130 seems a big short. I'd be suspicious that there was another partition on the drive eating up some space. Does XP's disk manager show only a single partition?

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Comment from andrew on 2005-11-14

2005-11-14T10:48:03Z

Hi Leo, a great explanation thank you!

I am installing a new '160'GiG harddrive (system drive) and prior to formatting the drive it only has an indicated capacity of 130 GiG....

Does that sound about right for a drive rated at 160 GiG?

Is this a predicted "after formatting" capacity?

It seems like a large a discrepancy!

NB/ figures gained from windows XP setup disc.

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Comment from Betty on 2005-03-22

2005-03-22T14:19:46Z

Very nice explanation of a concept my hardware students have difficulty with.

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Comment from Richard on 2005-03-14

2005-03-15T07:59:09Z

I would also like to point out that the File system or File allocation table (NTFS / FAT /FAT32 etc) also taked up a large amount of disk space. Different file systems take up different amounts of space, file systems vary according to their purpose. The bigger the hard drive, the move space is required for these file systems.

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