hard drive

Question:
hard drive
This is probably a stupid question, but I'm gonna ask anyway. I just got my laptop, and I paid a little extra for the 40gb hard drive instead of the 30gb. When I look in my system information it says 33.6gb total (not free, that's only 29.1). I was wondering why that is, I know of someone that bought a computer and didn't find out till a couple years later that their processor wasn't the one they paid for, so now I'm just trying to make sure I got everything that I upgraded. Thanks
Answer: u lose abit when formating and installing windows, my drive is an 80gb only have 74.5 GB free. You can not avoid losing the Capacity.
Answer: Hi Sublime. Once your harddrive is formated, it is always less than what they advertize. My guess is that it's probaly what you ordered, although it does sound a bit much to lose 6.4 GB out of 40 GB.
Answer: Ok, I figured it would have something to do with all the stuff they install at the factory, just wanted to make sure. Thanks alot for the help
Answer: There may also be a hidden partition for factore restore purposes.
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