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September 6th 06, 09:25 PM
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Connected new Seagate external HD
I've installed a new external HD 160 gigs but when its connected it
only shows 149 gigs available. I've ran thru every possible variation and I have no answer for 10+ unavailable gigs. Help!!!!! 
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September 6th 06, 10:40 PM
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Connected new Seagate external HD
Binary GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes. Divide your 160 decimal gig by that.
wrote: I've installed a new external HD 160 gigs but when its connected it only shows 149 gigs available. I've ran thru every possible variation and I have no answer for 10+ unavailable gigs. Help!!!!!
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September 7th 06, 01:03 AM
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Connected new Seagate external HD
Hard drive manufactures use base 10 numbers to describe the size of their hard drives, Windows uses
Binary so the amount Windows displays is always lower than whats on the box of the hard drive. -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ wrote in message oups.com... I've installed a new external HD 160 gigs but when its connected it only shows 149 gigs available. I've ran thru every possible variation and I have no answer for 10+ unavailable gigs. Help!!!!!
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