Typically, laptops have less hard drive space?

An 80 gig hdd should have about 77-78 gig of usable drive space. Some software (1-2 gig) is embedded by the manufacturer into the hdd to make it functional. If your laptop shows only 70 gig on it, you may have a bad sector (dead space), or another partition that you are not aware of. You can check your hdd using partition magic 5.1 which is a free ware. Use it with caution though, one wrong click and you will erase all the data.

Anyone knows that Windows and Software takes up space. There really is no other explanation for this unless your hard drive was split into "partitions". This means the drive space may be divided up and display as an additional drive (i.e. Drive E:, Drive F:) but it can split up the capacity and allocate to the extra spaces (i.e. a 80gb drive can be split into 2 partitions, C:=70gb, E:=10gb)

If there is a RECOVERY partition, that will be displayed as a drive E: with the allocated extra 10 GB's (So your 70 GB C: drive, plus the 10 GB E: drive allocated for System Recovery)

What the Buyer could do is

1) Go into "My Computer"
2) Right click on the "C" drive
3) Click "Properties" and it will show the ACTUAL capacity of the hard drive.

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! gig is 1024mb but the OS reads 1gig as 1000mb so it will show as less space than there actually is