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20Gig hard drive
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I have bought a '20Gig' MP3 player but i would like to know why the capacity (according to my PC) is only 18.6 gb and is there a way of regaining the lost 1.4 gb??????
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You never get the exact size that the manufacturer claims. Although your hard drive is theoretically 20Gb, once it's been formated with a filing system (such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, etc.), the filing system itself takes up quite a bit of space cos it puts invisible stuff like sectors, clusters and the File Allocation Table on the disk.