Hard drive used to be larger
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It depends where you're seeing the figures you quote but here's the short story:
A 250mb disk (as quoted in machine specs and by manufacturers) has approx 233mb usable capacity (as quoted by the Operating system).
This is due to the method used to calculate the space. Manufacturers use 1000kb to represent 1mb, Operating Systems tend to use 1024kb to represent 1mb.
That's to say you haven't 'lost' the space so much as you are seeing the same space reported in different ways.
A 250mb disk (as quoted in machine specs and by manufacturers) has approx 233mb usable capacity (as quoted by the Operating system).
This is due to the method used to calculate the space. Manufacturers use 1000kb to represent 1mb, Operating Systems tend to use 1024kb to represent 1mb.
That's to say you haven't 'lost' the space so much as you are seeing the same space reported in different ways.
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