Inspiron Hard drive capacity query

For anyone interested, Many HDD manufacturers uses the value of 1000MB for a GB. (1000KB)=B3=3D1GB

Windows "reports" approx. 1073.74MB for a GB. (1024KB)=B3=3D1GB in the Windows "environment".

Something similar can be said for cargo shippers, that carry goods by = water. Many use the value of a "tonne" (long ton) which is approx. 2240 = lbs. Where a "ton" in the US (also known internationally as a "short" = ton) refers to 2000 lbs. So you can say that Windows reports the size of = a HDD, using the "LONG" GB value.

I should have answered the OP question like this originally, so that = this message thread will end, and would not go on and on. I hope I have = accomplished that.

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Rich-rerat

Not really a different constant. It reports a calculation based on Base = 2.

You can google it.

Regardless, you got the 40 gb drive.

Tom MZB. If you did not have the restore and diagnostic parbreastions on your HDD,=20 Windows will report a single parbreastioned 40GB HDD, as having = approximately=20 39.06GB free space. Windows uses a different constant for the GB value.

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Rich-rerat

i've seen the restore parbreastion take up to 5 gb. go to mycomputer, manage, disk management and that will tell you what size hard drive you have and how its parbreastioned.

MZB