Why does my hard drive show less space than it actually has?

<p>I recently got an email from my friend Preston, who had this question: “I’m wondering why, when you get a new hard drive, you don’t get the full amount of space that it says on the box? When I got my PC a few years ago, it said I had that 500 GB hard drive, but [...] <span class="post_excerpt_readmore"><a href="https://computertutorflorida.com/2015/01/why-does-my-hard-drive-show-less-space-than-it-actually-has/" title="Read more">Read more »</a></span></p> <p>The post <a href="https://computertutorflorida.com/2015/01/why-does-my-hard-drive-show-less-space-than-it-actually-has/" target="_blank">Why does my hard drive show less space than it actually has?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://computertutorflorida.com/" target="_blank">The Computer Tutor</a>.</p><hr /><a href="http://ashford.turtleinteractive.com/download">Download Ashford for WordPress</a><hr />