Partitioning

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Phil

I'm running, AMD Athlon 2800+, A7N8X-Deluxe, Corsair
512DDR PC3200 Twinx, Seagate 80G, Seagate 40G.
During brand new installation, XP will not partition over
73gig.
What dumb thing did I do?
 
You are very ignorant and rude. Unless you have something of value
to contribute, you should refrain from posting.
 
Greetings --

1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes

It may be that Windows is accurately reporting the true size of
your hard drive. 73 x 1,073,741,824 = 78,383,153,152 bytes, which
your hard drive's manufacturer is rounding off and calling 80 Gb.
This is a common marketing tactic (assigning an even 1,000,000,000
bytes to the gigabyte) used by hard drive manufacturers to make their
products seem a bit larger than they really are.

Or are you seeing unallocated space on the physical drive that you
cannot access?


Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:
 
How are you trying to format it? NTFS I would imagine if you are not
partitioning it. This would sound just about right.
I formatted a 100GB drive in NTFS and ended up with 93GB of available space.

Remember, drive manufacturers usually spec. their drives using a factor of 1,000
as 1KB and 1,000,000 as 1MB, but that is not how computers usually present
capacity (1GB=1024^3). A standard 80GB drive is truly around 74.5GB unformatted
and with the overhead involved with laying the file system out will reduce this
to an even smaller number.

Paul
 
Bruce Chambers said:
Greetings --

1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes

It may be that Windows is accurately reporting the true size of
your hard drive. 73 x 1,073,741,824 = 78,383,153,152 bytes, which
your hard drive's manufacturer is rounding off and calling 80 Gb.
This is a common marketing tactic (assigning an even 1,000,000,000
bytes to the gigabyte) used by hard drive manufacturers to make their
products seem a bit larger than they really are.
Click to expand...

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Now you have HDD manufacturers ripping people off for for than what they sell the drives for. You are a ****wit of the highest order. I see you still are basing your bullshit in a way that manufacturers already place the byte units on the drive in a binary fashion! You cannot just come up with "73" gigs and say that this is how manufacturers do this.

Read here you ****ing pillocking ****;

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/current/drives.asp?Model=WD800BB

and read the footnote(s)
 
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