Barry Watzman
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Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:26 am Post subject:
Re: Should I be upset with Dell about my 6000 Laptop? |
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Well, the drive thing isn't Dell's doing. The entire industry rates
laptop drives based on decimal gigabytes (1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes),
while Microsoft reports sizes in binary gigabytes (1GB = 1,073,741,824
bytes). You are going to run into this EVERYWHERE .... every seller,
every brand of drive. There's no escaping it. However, you should be
seeing 75 gig, as you note. Most likely, in addition to the
binary/decimal discrepancy, if you run a partition diagnostic (Partition
Magic), you will find that Dell has established a 5 gigabyte "hidden"
partition for system recovery. That's probably where the other 5 gigs
went, Dell and HP do this, so do some other OEMs. I think that there is
a key you can press to boot into it instead of your "normal" partition,
then you can reinstall Windows and do some other stuff.
On the battery, I'd contact Dell and see what they say.
weaver4 wrote:
| Quote: | I ordered an new Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. When I ordered it I paid
for a 80G drive, it arrived with a 70G drive. I know about that a gig
is really (1073741824) bytes but that is still 75G not 70G.
The other problem is that I ordered the larger 90Watt-Hour battery, but
the battery is marked as a 80Watt-Hour.
So I feel a little bit mislead. |
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