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250 Gb Hard drive

I have just bought a new 250 Gb HDD, I just want to know if it is normal for windows XP to detect it as 233Gb, if not how can I correct This?

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Gamla Stan, 26, SE | 7 years, 2 months ago (7 hours, 21 minutes after post)

The “250MB” is read as GigaBit. Your computer runs (mostly) in GigaBytes. The small discrepency between to two (and formatting problems) cause the “loss” of a few GB.

You’ll find this happens with every hard drive ever. It’s a marketing ploy by HD makers to inflate the products image.

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Pretoria, 06, ZA | 7 years, 2 months ago (1 day, 6 hours after post)

Thank you for the reply chuyskywlk.

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