just a little advice needed please,the problem is that i bought a new laptop yesterday,ive no problem with the machine itself apart from the sound is a bit poor but nevermind,my problem is that it states there is a 40 gig hard drive in it,but it only has a 33.1 gig hard drive in it,all i need to know if this would be correct or should i get on to curry,s where i got it from and explain to them,33gig is a big differance from 40gig..any help would be great...thanx

Where are you getting, or seeing, 33.1.

Hi-when i put the cursor over the local disk c drive it comes up with it says total size 33.1 gb.im not to clever with computers,maybe ive been told the wrong way to check this..

40GB will be the unformatted size, 33.1 is after formatting (you always lose space - my 160GB drive shows up as 149!)

HARDDRIVE SIZE: Decimal vs. Binary: For simplicity and consistency, hard drive manufacturers define a megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is a decimal (base 10) measurement and is the industry standard. However, certain system BIOSs, FDISK and Windows define a megabyte as 1,048,576 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes. Mac systems also use these values. These are binary (base 2) measurements. To Determine Decimal Capacity: A decimal capacity is determined by dividing the total number of bytes, by the number of bytes per gigabyte (1,000,000,000 using base 10). To Determine Binary Capacity: A binary capacity is determined by dividing the total number of bytes, by the number of bytes per gigabyte (1,073,741,824 using base 2). In other words, for example--- The Decimal Capacity of a 40GB HDD is 40GB The Binary Capacity is 37.25GB

thanx for your help martyn,so everything is correct,i will stop worrying now,cheers again

Thanks chuck2-i just couldnt understand why it says total size 33.1gb-28gb free space,instead of total size 40gb-28gb frre space..cheers