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In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Grinder <grinder@no.spam.maam.com>
wrote:

>Frank McCoy wrote:
>>> 2.  When partitioned, some of the space is lost defining the partition.
>>> Also, far more space is lost in various formats that don't allow
>>> partitioning the full space available; so there's some unpartitioned
>>> space left over in almost every drive these days.  The bigger the drive,
>>> the more likely.  In my 160-gig drive (for example), even when I tell
>>> Windows to partition the entire drive as one huge volume, 8 gig is left
>>> over.  ;-{
>
>GT wrote:
>> Why did you leave 8GB behind? Following installation of my new system drive, 
>> I partitioned my Samsung Spinpoint 160GB 2 days ago, using windows and I am 
>> using the full 160GB, there's is no 8GB space left! That's 160 Giga Bytes as 
>> in 10^9. No approximations, no rounding, a pure 160GB. If you want me to 
>> approximate it using some bizarre inaccurate power of 2, then its 149.05GB, 
>> but we are still talking about 160,000,000,000 in 1 partition.
>
>I've noticed that when partitioning a drive using the Windows XP/2000 
>installer, a small portion is always left unallocated.  It's 8 megabytes 
>though, not 8 gigabytes.

Oops.  Perhaps you're right.
Sorry about that.

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