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Why does 120 GB advertised disc space shows as 106 GB in computer when exploring C drive?
When hard drives advertise "120 GB Hard Drive", that is UNFORMATTED space. Sort of like how TVs are measured diagonally to make them appear bigger than they really are. Anyway the advertised space is how big the drive is without being formatted because formatting takes up space. Formatting takes up space because the computer has to "rearrange" the setup of the drive, and when it's all done there is less space available. ---
Additional info: Actually, when HD manufacturers advertise 120 GB, they mean 120 billion bytes (120,000,000,000 bytes). But operating systems use 1024 as a multiple, not 1000, when going from bytes to Kilo, Mega, and then Giga (machines use a base-2 (binary) number system). So 120 REAL Gigabytes is 120*1024*1024*1024 bytes = 128849018880 bytes.
128849018880 - 120000000000 = 8849018880 bytes. 8849018880 bytes / 1024 /1024 /1024 = 8.2 GB (in Windows/Linux/OS X, etc.) difference. So the drive is really ~ 112 GB. Then, after formatting (see above) you will have even less (maybe 106 GB), but this will vary depending on the file system used (FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, etc.).
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