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Article #273Re: What percentage must be alloted to primary partition.
From: Ray.Milne
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 09:17
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 09:17
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"GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:46443199$0$30277$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com... > > > > The marketing people at maxtor (and other drives), use the mathematical > definition to describe their drive capacities. So your 160GB drive holds > 160,000,000,000 Bytes (mathematically accurate). Windows reports drive > sizes using the other definition, so to windows your drive holds 160 / > 2^30 = 149GB. > > Strange but true - the only industry or dicipline in the world where 160GB > = 149GB! But this is probably where you are 'losing' over 10GB of space. > The answer is that you aren't losing the space, its just windows reporting > the size wrongly. > I would say Windows is reporting it correctly, the Manufacturers have changed the way of SELLING hard drive space. Ray.
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