FW11S - SIZE OF MEMORY?

[WaltJabsco]

Why does my computer show "236GB of 268GB used" when my it is supposed to have a 300GB hard drive and not 268GB?

Thanks.

[Thalamus.]

Why does my computer show "236GB of 268GB used" when my it is supposed to have a 300GB hard drive and not 268GB?

Thanks.

Hi Walt Jabsco,

welcome to Club VAIO..

The difference in hard drive size is partly due to the different way manufactures and Microsoft report the sizes..

Manufacturers use the SI scale for example 1KB = 1000 bytes

Microsoft, ie windows XP/Vista, use the binary, for example 1KB = 1024 bytes

Therefore manufactures 300 GB hard drive = 300,000,000,000 bytes.

Whereas MS 300 GB hard drive = 279 GB

example 300GB manufactures size converted to MS binary scale...

300Gb = 300,000,000,000

/1024 = 292968750 kilobytes
/1024 = 286102 megabytes
/1024 = 279 Gigabytes

also then subtract the space allocated to the hidden recovery partition, which is probably 10 GB, leaves you 269GB..

[WaltJabsco]

Ok understood - thanks.

[Thalamus.]

You're welcome..