Lost gigabites from my hard drive

My netbook had 160gb drive when I bought it. It went down to 136gb and I was missing partitions. I used a partition recovery program and got it to 149gb and gain back two partitions. I am still missing gigabites. Is there a program that repair hard drive to gain the gigabites.

 

Hello,
That is normal and the way the hard drives are marketed.

1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte (KB)
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte (MB)
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB)
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte (TB)

Gigabyte = 1024 bytes*1024 bytes*1024 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes

160 Gigabytes / 1.07 = 149 Gigabytes

Or take the advertised size and multiply by .93

 

tgell is completely correct. :major

Computers are usually advertised with hard drives unformatted. To use them, you have to format your hard drive and you lose around 7% of capacity, or multiply by 0.93 as tgell said.

If your drive has already been formatted, the 160 gigs becomes around 149 gigs. :cry

My 500 Gig drive becomes 465 Gigs, formatted. :cry A "loss" of 35 Gigs.
Just a fact of computing life and salesmanship.

Bazza

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I understand what you both are saying. But I guess what should explain is when you in explorer and you highlight computer. It use to ready 160 gigabytes. Now it is only saying 149. I understand when format, the formatting takes some of the space. I am talking about the total amount of space with formatting is not what it was. It should still showing 160 gigabytes with the amount of free space available. It use to read 160 gigabyte with 110 gigabytes free. I am sorry I did not explain well what was going on.

 

If you google: hard drive lawsuit size

You will see that most if not all manufacturers of hdds were sued about this issue.