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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kash" data-source="post: 381743" data-attributes="member: 23444">Slokunshialgo, while you are correct about hard drive companies using base 10 (as opposed to every OS using base 2) resulting in "loss" of space, losing 150GB is rather excessive and definitely not the norm. I have several drives in my computer and each of them report an approximate 6-7% "loss" in space (this applies for drives that vary in size from 74GB to 250GB). So if we apply a 7% "loss" to this guy's 750GB hard drive, he should only lose 53GB, a far more reasonable number than 150GB. After sifting a bit through reviews, it seems as though 698GB seems to be what everyone is getting when making one large partition. So my estimate of losing 7% wasn't far off. Therefore, this definitely isn't a problem of base 10 versus base 2. Looks like the problem lies elsewhere.</blockquote>