When we buy harddisk,we usually wont have the entire disk space, what's the way to have full capacity???

Question

Suppose we use 160GB hard disk, but the total available space is only about 149GB. Is there any way to have the full disk space (entire 160GB) ???

Answer 1

The makers got sued because of the designations.  They were using decimal counts on bytes while the operation system and programs all use binary or hexadecimal.  The difference is that while a kilo in decimal is 1000; a kilo in binary is 1024,  a mega is 1,000,000 in decimal while in binary it is 1024 * 1024 = 1048576.

  So when the maker says they have 160 GB, they mean 160,000,000,000 in decimal.  But the operating system is reporting binary - the smaller number

  So you can't get it "back."   They are supposed to change ads & packaging   And besides, if you managed to look in detail, you would find that you are "losing" about the same percentage, depending on the size of your files, because DOS store data in sectors and if your letter is 2,000 bytes long, it still takes 8K on the disk.

Answer 2

As far as I'm aware, the reason HDs don't have the full size they say they are, is because of the Operating System taking up room, as well as the way it is formatted, although I may be wrong

Answer 3

SAME!

Mine is exactly 149GB as well so I guess its normal.

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Its the same with flash drives, iPods and general storage devices, Formatted size less.