Let's take a 1TB drive as an example.
Now the newcomer will think it's 1,000 Billion bytes and another will think it's 1,024 Billion bytes.
That's 24GB and I didn't go very deep into how we measure disk space and how a short cut in Windows has cause a few hundred posts like yours.
Bob
i recently got a sata hdd enclosure for a 2.5" hardrive from my broken laptop and i used it on my desktop but the old system files were still on it and they wouldn't delete so i did something stupid and used a program called kill-disk which basically wipes out the drive, except that when i used it - it wiped out the drive containing the system files causing me to loose 30GB. if you're going to tell me how ******** this step was - spare me, i'm totally aware, thanks.

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