Earl F. Parrish
April 20th 03, 06:23 PM
"S.Heenan" > wrote in message
. ca...
>
> "richard larson" > wrote in message
> ...
> > i just put in a 80 gig hard drive and when i tryed to
> > fromat the hard drive it only let me go to 75 gig how can
> > i format the whole hard drive and help in this thank you
>
> 80,000,000,000/ 1.024^3= ~74.506 GB Harddrive makers base their
numbers on
> the first figure equaling 80GB, where the OS reads a GB as
931,322,575
> bytes. This has nothing to do with formatting or file systems.
>
>
You have your analogy backwards. A gigabyte is 1024 to the third
power which is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes. The hard drive
manufacturers use the decimal system for gigabyte which is
1,000,000,000 bytes. The operating system uses the binary gigabyte.
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Earl F. Parrish
. ca...
>
> "richard larson" > wrote in message
> ...
> > i just put in a 80 gig hard drive and when i tryed to
> > fromat the hard drive it only let me go to 75 gig how can
> > i format the whole hard drive and help in this thank you
>
> 80,000,000,000/ 1.024^3= ~74.506 GB Harddrive makers base their
numbers on
> the first figure equaling 80GB, where the OS reads a GB as
931,322,575
> bytes. This has nothing to do with formatting or file systems.
>
>
You have your analogy backwards. A gigabyte is 1024 to the third
power which is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes. The hard drive
manufacturers use the decimal system for gigabyte which is
1,000,000,000 bytes. The operating system uses the binary gigabyte.
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Earl F. Parrish