Chad Williamson
December 7th 03, 12:15 AM
There are two things here that are happening. With Hard
Drive manufacturers one billion bytes means a gigabyte, in
PC terms, 1.024 billion bytes means a gigabyte. A true 20
GB hard drive would actually have 21,474,836,480 bytes but
the actual hard drive only has 20,000,000,000 bytes. That
is a difference of 1,474,836,480 bytes, almost the full
1.5 GB you are not seeing. The other part is the
formatting of the drive that take up a little more.
HTH
Chad Williamson
>-----Original Message-----
>I Have windows XP. I have 20 GB hard disk mentioned by
manufacturer. When I
>right click on C drive and say properties it shows me 1.5
GB less in the
>capacity. I am wondering where is 1.5 GB going? I turned
off the indexing
>also.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>-Vinod
>
>
>.
>
Drive manufacturers one billion bytes means a gigabyte, in
PC terms, 1.024 billion bytes means a gigabyte. A true 20
GB hard drive would actually have 21,474,836,480 bytes but
the actual hard drive only has 20,000,000,000 bytes. That
is a difference of 1,474,836,480 bytes, almost the full
1.5 GB you are not seeing. The other part is the
formatting of the drive that take up a little more.
HTH
Chad Williamson
>-----Original Message-----
>I Have windows XP. I have 20 GB hard disk mentioned by
manufacturer. When I
>right click on C drive and say properties it shows me 1.5
GB less in the
>capacity. I am wondering where is 1.5 GB going? I turned
off the indexing
>also.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>-Vinod
>
>
>.
>