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Why is the effective hard drive size lower than the actual size?
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I just got a new Lenovo Laptop which has been installed with Windows 7 and is supposed to have 250 GB hard disk. Windows 7 reports that the hard disk drive has two parts: 221 GB and 9.76 GB . The sum of the two parts is 230.76 GB. If I remember correctly, if divide 250 GB by 1024 three times, I wil…
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Because NTFS by design uses a piece of your volume for a MFT (Master File Table) which holds file names, creation dates, access permissions, and contents as metadata. The bigger the volume, the bigger the chunk NTFS will need.
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