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my 200GB drive is only showing 180GB?!??
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The[H]uman
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is this your first computer ever ??? or just crawl out from under a rock .. that sounds alittle low but normal
My 250 gig hdds show up as 233 in windows which is 100% normal cause of how windows handles the size of drives this has been since the dawn of time
My 250 gig hdds show up as 233 in windows which is 100% normal cause of how windows handles the size of drives this has been since the dawn of time
the other 20 gigs is for slack space. forget about ever reclaiming it. pretend its not there and you paid for a 180gig hd.
floppy drives are the same way. 1.4meg disks are not 1.4 megs. they are either 2 or 2.8 megs. Its always been that way, every disk/usb device/hd/cdrom in existance has it.
floppy drives are the same way. 1.4meg disks are not 1.4 megs. they are either 2 or 2.8 megs. Its always been that way, every disk/usb device/hd/cdrom in existance has it.
The[H]uman said:is this your first computer ever ??? or just crawl out from under a rock .. that sounds alittle low but normal
My 250 gig hdds show up as 233 in windows which is 100% normal cause of how windows handles the size of drives this has been since the dawn of time
i just got out of prison. but it is showing up actually as 186GB. still low?
Nope. Not at all.
Disk manufacturers call a gigabyte 1,000,000,000 bytes. Windows uses a "base 2" gigabyte, like memory manufacturers do. It's just like a "gig" of ram is 1024MB. Windows calls a gigabyte 2^30 = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1073741824 bytes. (1000000000/1073741824) * 200 = 186.2645.
So you have 200,000,000,000 bytes. It's just that Windows uses a different definition of a GB, and under its definition you have 186 GB.
Disk manufacturers call a gigabyte 1,000,000,000 bytes. Windows uses a "base 2" gigabyte, like memory manufacturers do. It's just like a "gig" of ram is 1024MB. Windows calls a gigabyte 2^30 = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1073741824 bytes. (1000000000/1073741824) * 200 = 186.2645.
So you have 200,000,000,000 bytes. It's just that Windows uses a different definition of a GB, and under its definition you have 186 GB.