Re: Hard Drive
From: Pete Baker (petebkrAThotmailDOTcom)
Date: 04/03/04
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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 18:44:29 +0100
Glad to help
Pete
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Viv wrote
> Hi Pete
> Thanks for your quick response yes that does help I
> thought I had formatted/partitioned it wrong.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi Viv
> >
> >Here is the same response that I posted in this thread
> earlier. It also
> >applies to your query.
> >
> >You are not missing any space - although the drive
> manufacturer could be
> >clearer. For drive manufacturers 1,000,000,000 bytes =
> 1 Gb, whereas an OS
> >will regard 1,073,741,824 bytes as 1 Gb. (It's a decimal
> V binary thing)
> >
> >The best way to see this is in XP. With XP installed,
> open My Computer,
> >select the appropriate
> >drive and right-click, select properties...
> beside 'capacity' you will see
> >the total number of bytes on your disk and to the right
> the number of
> >Gigabytes.
> >
> >For example, on my 120 Gb drive I have 120,023,252,992
> bytes... which is
> >also listed in disk properties as a capacity of 111 Gb.
> >
> >The Hard Drive manufacturer refers to the 'bytes' total
> in my case as 120
> >Gb... and, in purely decimal terms, it is -
> 120,000,000,000 bytes.
> >
> >The 111 Gb is what the operating system (XP in this
> case) 'sees'... because
> >the OS
> >calculates the storage in binary terms... 1024 bytes as
> 1 Kb, 1024 Kb as 1
> >Mb, and 1024 MB as 1 Gb.....
> >
> >so in my case 120,023,252,992 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024
> (that's bytes =>
> >Kilobytes => Megabytes => Gigabytes) is 111.78 Gigabytes
> as far as the
> >computer is concerned. (The drive capacity may only show
> the first 3
> >digits.)
> >
> >Neither calculation of the disk size is 'wrong' ......
> they are equivalent.
> >
> >In your case, the drive capacity of 120,000,00,000
> >bytes (or close to that value) will be referred to
> by 'My Computer' as 111
> >Gb
> >after the above calculation.
> >
> >Of course, by using the decimal definition drive
> manufacturers are only
> >obliged to provide 120,000,000,000 bytes when they claim
> a drive size of 120
> >Gb.
> >
> >Hope that helps
> >Pete
> >-------------------------------
> >
> >
> >"Viv" didn't read the previous responses and asked again
> >> I have an external hard drive conencted through an
> >> internal firewire card. This disk is meant to be 120GB
> >> when I format & partition in within XP ntfs I only get
> >> 111GB usable. Can anyone please tell me how to
> >> format/partition it to it's full capacity.
> >> Thanks Viv
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