8GB Hard drive appearing as 6.4GB??

Discussion in 'Laptop Hardware' started by nixtoo, Aug 25, 2008.

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    nixtoo

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    Hi,
    Does anyone know where the rest of my hard drive is?
     
    nixtoo, Aug 25, 2008
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    annafil

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    First of all, 8GB translates to about 7.2 in real life megabytes because of the whole 1024 bytes thing.

    There is a 1GB partition on your aspire one called a "swap" partition. it is like extended ram but on your hard disk, it kicks in when you run out of real ram

    if you dont wantit anymore, you can reclaim the space. instructions available at macles.blogspot.com

    for future reference, google is your friend.
     
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    8 GB = (8,000,000,000 B / 1024^3) GiB = 7.45 GiB
     
    apaige, Aug 25, 2008
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