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Harddisk report wrong?
Name: Travis Date: April 18, 2002 at 09:30:05 Pacific
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Hi all! i got a D740X Maxtor 40GB harddisk, i partitioned it (utilized maximum space), but my WinME reports that it is only 37.2GB (weird figure?), what happened to my other 2.8 GB? It's alot of space.... thanks!
Name: Nathan Randle Date: April 18, 2002 at 09:39:01 Pacific
Reply:
I think they must just round it up because I have a Maxtor 80gig and only 78gigs of that has ever appeared :(
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Response Number 2
Name: D@VE Date: April 18, 2002 at 11:18:20 Pacific
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Check out this link for info about bits and butes.
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Response Number 3
Name: irysler Date: April 18, 2002 at 11:45:43 Pacific
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normally, the hard disk's makers count the gigabytes as this: 1000 Mb it's a Gigabyte. But really, one gigabyte it's around 1024 megabytes, if you do a simple mathematical operation, you can found where are your lost gigas....
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Response Number 4
Name: New Math? Date: April 18, 2002 at 11:50:58 Pacific
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So, 40,000 divided by 1024 equals 39.0625.
Is my calculator wrong irysler?
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Response Number 5
Name: Travis Date: April 18, 2002 at 17:40:42 Pacific
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Yeap Irys got a point, but taking 37.2 X 1.024 doesn't give me my 40 Gigs still? (38.0928)
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Response Number 6
Name: hillarities Date: April 18, 2002 at 18:25:40 Pacific
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The rest of your space is being used by the fat (file allocation table), and certain hidden system files wich are resident on the hard drive, and which your os uses to locate files. Hope this answers your question.
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Response Number 7
Name: Travis Date: April 18, 2002 at 19:46:49 Pacific
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