USB 2.0 External Drive - Need help!

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Bob J

I have a Dell Dimension 4300 - BIOS rev A02 - and decided to add an
external Western Digital 160GB drive to the working USB 2.0.

It came pre-formatted and WinXp DID recognize it and added it as
anopther drive

Only problem I see is that it reads in properties for this drive
CAPACITY 149GB. I know there is some overhead in formatting and so on
but 11GB !!

I appear to be reading past the 137GB barrier but can't seem to figure
whether something was done in formatting at the factory or there is a
setting or driver I am missing.

TIA

Bob
 
Only problem I see is that it reads in properties for this drive
CAPACITY 149GB. I know there is some overhead in formatting and so on
but 11GB !!

I appear to be reading past the 137GB barrier but can't seem to figure
whether something was done in formatting at the factory or there is a
setting or driver I am missing.
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OK once more for those who got into computers lately. Manufacturers say
that 1,000^3 is 1GB. Thus 160,000,000,000 bytes (160*1,000,000,000) is 160
GB. The computer says that 1,024^3 is 1 GB so, according to the computer,
that 160,000,000,000 byte drive has 160,000,000,000 / 1,024^3 GB which is
approx. 149.011611938 GB (again, according to the computer) so the computer
would say the raw drive has 149 GB as opposed to WD which says 160 GB. The
discrepancy will grow worse with Terabyte (1000^4 or 1024^4) drives!

Tom Lake
 
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