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**Lead3** · 01-29-2008, 08:52 PM

No you do not need to replace the drive. It is working correctly. A 160GB drive will only show as 149 GB. That is correct. SInce the manufacture of drives uses decimal bytes and software uses binary.

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Lead3 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 1,378 OS: 98SE,2000,XP SP3,VISTA SP2 x64 & x86, Windows 7 x64 & x86 My System	Re: Confused about my Hard Drive..... No you do not need to replace the drive. It is working correctly. A 160GB drive will only show as 149 GB. That is correct. SInce the manufacture of drives uses decimal bytes and software uses binary. __________________