-----Original Message-----
I have attewmpted to install a new hdd in my Thinkpad
running XP Pro. The 80GB Toshiba MK8025GAS drive (8455
mb capacity) is recognized as having 76317 mb of capacity
when formatted. I have tried using partition wizard to
see if there is another hidden partition or unpartitioned
portion of the drive, but do not see anything. How do I
recover the missing capacity? Thanks for your help.
There are two common definitions for a megabyte (MB):
Ten to the sixth power or 1,000,000 bytes, the pure
decimal value.
Two to the 20th power or 1,048,576 bytes, a value
commonly used when indicating computer memory size.
Data Lifeguard, Data Lifeguard DOS and Copy files
consider a MB to be 1,000,000 bytes. This corresponds to
the values you get if you do a DIR command or run CHKDSK.
When viewing the properties on a hard drive under Windows
it considers a MB to be 1,048,576 bytes and it considers
a GB to be 1,073,741,824 bytes.
If you view partitions created by Data Lifeguard with a
utility that considers a MB to be 1,048,576 bytes, such
as DOS FDISK or Windows 2000/XP Disk Management, the
partition size presented will be a lesser number of MB.
The actual storage capacity is the same.
Example: If a drive has 1024 cylinders, 16 heads and 63
sectors per track, Data Lifeguard will show a capacity of
528MB. FDISK will show a capacity of 504MB.
