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purcy
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_ 		2. January 2007 @ 22:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The size of one of my hard drives differs with the actual capacity by 9 GB. This is a significant amount of space. Is this normal, or are there some hidden folders/files that I cannot see that are taking up this space?
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ditri
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_ 		3. January 2007 @ 01:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
are you using windows? in windows they use 1024 for computing instead of 1000. for example if you have 120Gbytes (120,000,000,000 bytes) windows

120,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 117187500 Kbytes
117187500 Kbytes / 1024 = 114440.91 Mbytes
114440.91 Mbytes / 1024 = 111.75 Gbytes

so your 120Gbytes harddisk will only be 111.75 in windows.
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purcy
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_ 		3. January 2007 @ 11:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's it. Thanks mate.
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