Hi all Does anyone know why XP set-up only sees 8048gb of a 20gb size disk? I ran fdisk from a win98 boot disk and created a 19gb partition, set this to active, then formated after the reboot. I then ran XP set up and it said I only had 8048gb of hard drive, eh??? Went back to fdisk to check and it said 19gb. What is going on? When I did this before on another PC all was fine, maybe it is something I missed, or something I haven't done.. Any help anyone? Thanks in advance. The world is full of willing people, some are willing to work, others are willing to let them; just a thought!

...sees 8048gb of a 20gb size disk? What is wrong with that information ???? 8048GB is more than 20GB.

Sorry, maybe it was how I wrote it!! XP Set up sees- 8048mb - 8gb Fdisk sees 19454mb - 20gb So surely something is amiss somewhere. The world is full of willing people, some are willing to work, others are willing to let them; just a thought!

HARDDRIVE SIZE: Decimal vs. Binary: For simplicity and consistency, hard drive manufacturers define a megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is a decimal(base 10) measurement and is the industry standard. However, certain system BIOSs, FDISK and Windows define a megabyte as 1,048,576 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes. Mac systems also use these values. These are binary (base 2) measurements. To Determine Decimal Capacity: A decimal capacity is determined by dividing the total number of bytes, by the number of bytes per gigabyte (1,000,000,000 using base 10). To Determine Binary Capacity: A binary capacity is determined by dividing the total number of bytes,by the number of bytes per gigabyte (1,073,741,824 using base 2). In other words, for example--- The Decimal Capacity of a 40GB HDD is 40GB The Binary Capacity is 37.25GB My 60GB HDD is 55.78 Computers use Binary. The larger the HDD, the more you lose.

That doesn't come close to explaining away 12gigs of space. Don't use fdisk to partition. Use the xp install, of during which you can partition and format your drive. Are you ready for where Microsoft wants you to go today?