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Drive Space and Hidden Partitions Many times when you purchase a prebuilt computer you will find that the hard drive space is less than you thought it was. There could be a couple of reasons for this. The most common reason is that harddrive manufactures calculate drives space differently than the operating system. They use multiples 1000 bytes instead of 1024 when converting bytes to gigabytes. The other reason is many manufactures include a hidden partition with computer restoration information. You can't access this information from windows because the partition is hidden but if you boot from a Linux live CD such as the Ubunutu or Knoppix you can access the information on that partition.

Contributed by AW on February 4, 2008, at 12:55 PM UTC.

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Primarily the difference is down to who/what is calculating the capacity. Quite simply too it's about convenience and the rounding up of numbers for the sake of sales. after all what's easier quoting 80Gb or 78.65Gb on the box?

Puniksem Oct 22, 2008 18:01

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