by pcgamefreak on April 15th, 2007

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Why do hard drives have less space than they are advertised? My hard drive was sold at 80 GB, but when I look at the capacity, it says 69.5 GB. Why?

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by RamJamBumbleBee on April 15th, 2007
80GB is the RAW data storage area. However, in order to actually use the drive, it has to be formatted, which reveals the actual usable capacity which in your case is 69.5GB.
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  by RamJamBumbleBee on April 17th, 2007
- Fixed.
  And yeah, that is most of the reason.
  With you and AB-John, you have the full answer.
  
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