160GB diskspace?

[gregismoney]

With the factory settings that I have left, my FZ-21E shows one drive C: with a 138GB capacity, instead of the 160 or so I expected with free space of 22.3GB. What I don't understand is that the contents of C: don't even go over 90GB.

I don't see any recovery drive either in "Computer".

This all means that with a diskdrive with a nominal capacity of 160GB, I'm getting just over 100GB of actual usable space, which doesn't sound right at all.

[Thalamus.]

Hi gregismoney

The difference in hard drive size is due to the different way manufactures and Microsoft report the sizes..

Manufacturers use the SI scale for example 1KB = 1000 bytes

Microsoft, ie windows XP, use the binary, for example 1KB = 1024 bytes

Therefore manufactures 160 GB hard drive = 1600,000,000,000 bytes.

Whereas MS 160 GB hard drive = 74.5 GB

example 160GB manufactures size converted to MS binary scale...

160Gb = 160,000,000,000

/1024 = 156250000 kilobytes
/1024 = 152588 megabytes
/1024 = 149 Gigabytes

Also you have a hidden recovery partition, which is probably 7.5 GB