Dell Hard drive... WTF.

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Alright, I just bought a Dell Inspiron e1705. It said it came with a 60Gb Harddrive. I opened it and looked at the properties under My Computer and it said Available Space:49.7Gb and Free Space: 39.9. So I called Dell tech support and they said that 10Gb were partitioned off for the Backup files and operating system.

But I went into the Device manager and looked at the hard drive properties and it said it had 55.5 GB. I told this to the guy and he was like " yea, so 5GB is reserved for backup OS and the other 5GB is reserved for applications to run your OS."

I believe the 5GB backup OS but the other five... Is this true?? Feels like they are trying to rip me off. I need all your guy's expert advice. Thanks.:confused:
 
Part of the problem could be how each systems sees 1GB. Most companies say right on the box that 1GB=1,000MB or 1,00,000KB. However thats not technically true. 1,000MB is actually 0.976563GB. because 1MB=1024KB not 1000KB. So magnify that by 60 and you lose some space there. It might not account for all of it, but thats often the case.
eg.
200gb harddrive means 200,000,000,000 bytes
/ 1024 = 195,312,500 kilobytes
/ 1024 = 190734.86 megabytes
/ 1024 = 186.26 gigabytes
 
55.gb's is the formatted size for the drive.

A un formated harddrive has 1000mb's in 1gb instead of 1024, so that will end up at 55gb's.

My 80gb is at 74gb's.
 
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