1) part of the drive contains a hidden recovery partition to return your system to the factory-shipped state if you ever desire. you can delete this hidden partition and regain the space if you need it
2) when drive makers measure capacity, they do so differently than your operating system does. for "advertised" capacity, a gigabyte equals one billion bytes. windows calculates differently however based on powers of 2 ... for windows, 1gigabyte is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes. this difference is measuring will cause windows to report the size as being smaller
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two reasons:
1) part of the drive contains a hidden recovery partition to return your system to the factory-shipped state if you ever desire. you can delete this hidden partition and regain the space if you need it
2) when drive makers measure capacity, they do so differently than your operating system does. for "advertised" capacity, a gigabyte equals one billion bytes. windows calculates differently however based on powers of 2 ... for windows, 1gigabyte is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes. this difference is measuring will cause windows to report the size as being smaller