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Originally Posted by menendez1293
With a standard installation of 8.1 with a recovery and driver partition you get about 465gb of a 500gb for file storage.
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A 500 gig commercial hard drive (which contains 499,289,948,160 bytes) is actually 465 gigs (499,289,948,160 / 1,073,741,824) before being formatted and before anything is installed (I looked it up). Windows 8 requires 20 gigs and it uses another 18 gigs for various programs it installs taking up a total of 38 gigs. This means a 500 gig commercial hard drive after having just the OS and no other programs installed will have 427 gigs left over for the user.