New HD installation with Windows xp

[Phil C]

Chris;
When I came home tonight, I put the 60GB hard drive in
the external usb 2 enclosure and connected it. It
recognizes the disk as disk 1 in device manager. It gives
me the model number too. It displays it as uninitialized,
which is understandable since it is new. But it also
recognizes the size as 57, 224 MB or 57.2GB I quess I can
safely assume that if the Bios recognizes the full HD
capacity from the usb connect, that I should be able to
now install it as a master, partition and format.
I also checked out the Phoenix website/PDF you supplied.
It has some interesting information, but I don't see near
as much info in my actual set-up as it shows in the
manual. Is this normal? Could there be hidden panels in
my set-up?
Thanks
Phil

[Thomas Wendell]

The size Windows tells you is about right.
Mfgs/vendors usually count MBs (and GBs) by dividing by 1000, but the right
divide is by 1024.....
~60GB = 60,000,000,000B /1024/1024=57.220,459MB


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"Phil C" > kirjoitti
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> Chris;
> When I came home tonight, I put the 60GB hard drive in
> the external usb 2 enclosure and connected it. It
> recognizes the disk as disk 1 in device manager. It gives
> me the model number too. It displays it as uninitialized,
> which is understandable since it is new. But it also
> recognizes the size as 57, 224 MB or 57.2GB I quess I can
> safely assume that if the Bios recognizes the full HD
> capacity from the usb connect, that I should be able to
> now install it as a master, partition and format.
> I also checked out the Phoenix website/PDF you supplied.
> It has some interesting information, but I don't see near
> as much info in my actual set-up as it shows in the
> manual. Is this normal? Could there be hidden panels in
> my set-up?
> Thanks
> Phil

[Peter]

Hi,

1 megabyte =3D 1,048,576 bytes

60,000,000,000 /1,048,576 =3D 57,220.459MB or 57.22GB

Peter

>-----Original Message-----
>The size Windows tells you is about right.
>Mfgs/vendors usually count MBs (and GBs) by dividing by=20
1000, but the right
>divide is by 1024.....
>~60GB =3D 60,000,000,000B /1024/1024=3D57.220,459MB
>
>
>--
>I'd rather drink beer, it soothes M$ aggravated nerves.
>Helsinki, Finland (remove spam_)
>
>
>
>
>"Phil C" > kirjoitti
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>> Chris;
>> When I came home tonight, I put the 60GB hard drive in
>> the external usb 2 enclosure and connected it. It
>> recognizes the disk as disk 1 in device manager. It=20
gives
>> me the model number too. It displays it as=20
uninitialized,
>> which is understandable since it is new. But it also
>> recognizes the size as 57, 224 MB or 57.2GB I quess I=20
can
>> safely assume that if the Bios recognizes the full HD
>> capacity from the usb connect, that I should be able to
>> now install it as a master, partition and format.
>> I also checked out the Phoenix website/PDF you supplied.
>> It has some interesting information, but I don't see=20
near
>> as much info in my actual set-up as it shows in the
>> manual. Is this normal? Could there be hidden panels in
>> my set-up?
>> Thanks
>> Phil
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