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Name: aa
Date: October 24, 2000 at 14:25:24 Pacific
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I am having 8.4gb hdd and i have partionned it to 6.4 and 2 gb but 6.4gb is showing only
5.99gb what happened to .5gb space??????
Thanks in advance



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Name: Robert Holland
Date: October 24, 2000 at 14:35:57 Pacific
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You have to remember that 8.4 Gig is appox.

Also you have to remember that a gig is 1024KB and windows only counts a gig as 1000kb but dos counts a gig as 1024 kb.

So checkyour drive total in dos also and you will see that it will show more space than windows.


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