topic Re: Fz11S Hard Drive Space in PCs & Accessories

Fz11S Hard Drive Space

Rei357 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:56:42 GMT

I've recently purchased an FZ11S, which listed the Hard Drive space as 160GB. However the laptop only states it's Hard Drive space as 139GB. I've searched the whole system & can't locate the missing 21GBs. Is there anyway to find & free up this space?

Re: Fz11S Hard Drive Space

vali.ene — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:36:32 GMT

Right click on My computer -> Manage -> Disk Management and see whole hdd with all the partitions on it

Re: Fz11S Hard Drive Space

rich912 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:12:26 GMT

Hi Rei357 and welcome to the forum.

The disparity in capacity is partially explained by the way MS as opposed to the drive manufacturer express size. The manufacturer uses the SI definition (1 kB = 1,000 bytes) of the prefixes "mega" and "giga" . Whereas Windows reports capacity using the binary definition (1 kB = 1,024 bytes)

This example refers to a 160GB drive:

160GB hard drive means 160,000,000,000 bytes
/ 1024 = 356250000 kilobytes
/ 1024 = 152588 megabytes
/ 1024 = 149 gigabytes

So your drive, according to the binary definition, is actually 149 gigabytes.

The remainder of the missing space is occupied by the hidden recovery partition (approx. 10 GB.)

I hope that this helps to clarify things….