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by: bighorn60 August 10, 2004 10:44 PM PDT

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system not showing true HD size

by bighorn60 - 8/10/04 10:44 PM

I have Win XP Pro, Intel Pent III 800, and installed a 160GB Western Digital HD. I partitioned it into 4 drives, and my system information indicates I have a total of 149.05GB. The partitions are correct, but only total up to 149.05. Is there an answer to this. I tried to find a similar situation before posting this but none of the problems seem to be like mine.
Thanks, Bob H


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Re: system not showing true HD size

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 8/11/04 5:27 AM

In Reply to: system not showing true HD size by bighorn60

That's about the right number for the 137GB non-48-bit LBA enabled disk size.

You neglected the forum tip about OS and more, so I will leave you with this URL.

http://www.48bitlba.com/index.htm

Bob


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Re: system not showing true HD size

by holtnr - 8/12/04 4:54 AM

In Reply to: system not showing true HD size by bighorn60

When is a GB not a GB? When marketing gets involved in quoting disk specs. 160,000,000,000 bytes = 149 kilo-kilo-kilo bytes. 1 kilobyte = 1024 = 2^10. Many disk manufacturers quote mumble bytes as base ten, the computer is sensitive to power of 2 boundaries, hence computer pros think in powers of 2. This is a common mis-understanding, especially since most of us really don't have all that much use for Base-2. In other words 160GB = 149GB depending on who does the counting. Now, is that perfectly clear?


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by brettrgarner - 2/9/05 3:31 PM

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If you look on the packaging of a HDD it will have fine print stating that 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. XP sees 1GB = 1, 064,000,000 bytes (or close to that). Marketing ploy to make you feel like you're getting more, but everyone does it so price comparisons are still effective.


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(NT) (NT) 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes

by pianoplayer88key - 2/10/05 12:11 PM

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