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Hi everyone yesterday I bout a new Asus M50VC and it suppose that the HDD is 320GB when I try to partition it if found only 300GB the 20GB is not there when is ask the agent they told me it's from the company, that I have return it to them because I suspicious on it, in the laptop they writhe 320GB also on the package anyone have any idea please?
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Originally Posted by alawi View Post
Hi everyone yesterday I bout a new Asus M50VC and it suppose that the HDD is 320GB when I try to partition it if found only 300GB the 20GB is not there when is ask the agent they told me it's from the company, that I have return it to them because I suspicious on it, in the laptop they writhe 320GB also on the package anyone have any idea please?
20GB is a lot of space to lose from a format. I was origionally going to suggest that was the cause, but if the agent feels like you're losing too much space, they may have given you the wrong hard drive.

What is the exact number reporting when you go to properties on the hard drive?
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It was about 298 GB, but I didn’t format it or partition it the number was like that, and after partition and formatting the number was not increased or reduced still getting same about 298GB its new laptop suppose.
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There's nothing wrong with your hard drive. It's the difference between how the drive manufacturers measure hard drive space and how your computer measures hard drive space. Manufacturers (and people) tend to describe capacity in decimal format (base 10), but computers work on binary format (base 2). What this means is that the closest binary approximation to a decimal place is going to be a larger number. For instance, one gigabye in decimal is 1,000,000,000 bytes. One gigabyte in binary is 1,073,741,824 bytes. There's still the same amount of space on the drive, but your computer will report a lower number than the manufacturer because it can only see things in binary.

edit: you can do the math for yourself. 320,000,000,000 divided by 1,073,741,824 equals just over 298 binary gigabytes.
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Thank you for explaining, but I have another Asus laptop with 100GB and it read exactly about 98GB, is there any difference between companies to another that manufacturing the HDD?
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Thank you for explaining, but I have another Asus laptop with 100GB and it read exactly about 98GB, is there any difference between companies to another that manufacturing the HDD?
If your computer saw 98GB on a 100GB drive, I guess some companies must be publishing the binary gigabyte capacities, but I haven't seen that before.
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I have Dell With 80GB HDD when I check incomputer management I see 74.44
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I have Dell With 80GB HDD when I check incomputer management I see 74.44
same with my 80GB hard drive. It shows around 74-75 GB
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