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new 120 gb SATA hdd
Name: Razin Date: September 8, 2005 at 13:05:25 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: P4
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hi, i bought a new 120gb SATA hdd. nothing is installed... new fresh one. i wanna know how to create partitions in DOS mode. And winxp setup shows total size of disk available is 114471 MB. why is it so? can't we make use of the complet 120gb space? please help me asap!!
Name: Richard59 Date: September 8, 2005 at 13:29:58 Pacific
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This question about drive size has been answered many times. Drive manufacturers measure GB as 1000mb and a Mb as 1000Kb whereas windows measures GB as 1024mb. and a Mb as 1024kb. Hence a drive advertised as 120gb by the manufacturer actually measures around 114.4gb in windows.
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Response Number 2
Name: Razin Date: September 8, 2005 at 13:36:20 Pacific
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thnx richard 59... but what bout the partioning issue???
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Response Number 3
Name: plainandsimple Date: September 8, 2005 at 14:45:50 Pacific
btw what the hell is "DOS MODE", Windows XP is a NT (New Technolgy) Operating System based on OS/2.
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Response Number 4
Name: plainandsimple Date: September 8, 2005 at 14:47:19 Pacific
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I suppose "DOS MODE" is what M$ call "TEXT MODE" ??????????????????????
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Response Number 5
Name: ham30 Date: September 8, 2005 at 16:09:39 Pacific
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Maybe Razin meant FAT mode and not DOS mode. XP will partition/format the drive as FAT32 which is accessible by DOS. NTFS is not accessible by DOPS or Win9X.
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