Is that swindler?

I simply bought a Toshiba U 5058 notebook from CompUSA, its features showed that it has 160 gb storage expertise in Hard drive, but it shows right immediately on the the C: properties it is only 147 gb


Answer:

I'm sure your Windows OS is taking up some of that space.
The remaining is used to store the system files to see your computer to operate.
Yes, it's lying. 160 GB will never be reached, unless you uninstall Windows. With what you hold installed, 147GB is good.
I surmise it's not liar, (160-147) Gb storage that's gone is used for system and separator allocation. *sorry for my English*
The hardrive may be 160g's, but you only hold access to 147g's of it's space due to pre-installed software for roll backs short the installation CD's / DVD's from the manufacturer, and the motherboard drivers and such.
The problem is contained by the way that concrete drive manufacturers are allowed to report disk size. They are allowed to consider 1000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte. In actuality, here are 1024 kilobytes in 1 megabyte. This certainly lets them claim that the drive have more capacity than it really does.

When drives be smaller, there wasn't much discrepancy, but next to the very substantial drives that are common presently, it throws the numbers off reasonably a bit.
Windows uses around 20GBof drive space.