60gb=?mb ???

[LiquidX]

"X" is trying to partition his 200 gig hard drive. One partition for 60GB and another for 40GB using partition magic. But partition magic only allows him to do it through how much MB he wants the new drivers to equal. But "X" wants to partiton 2 drives for 60 and 40 gigabytes each and is at a loss of how much MB each will equal.

Help "X" find...

How much MB will 60 and 40 gigbyte partitions of the 200GB drive equal respectfully?



Thanks, I hate math and dont know how I got through high school and college.

 

[jagec]

firstly, that 200GB hard drive probably has 190GB of actual space on it, once it's formatted. Hard drive manufacturers have a funny way of doing space.

Second, it will be about 61500 and 41000 MB respectfully, give or take a few.

 

[Proneax]

60 + 40 = 100
So you want 2 60 gig partitions and 2 40 gig partitions?

1 Gigabyte - 1024 megabytes

so....

60 gigabytes = 61440 MB
40 gigabytes = 40960 MB

Honestly... you should be able to do that yourself.

 

[Proneax]

jagec you beat me to it!!

Anyway, in marketing speak, 1 GB = 1000MB (metric system) wheras in technical speak 1GB - 1024MB (Binary system)

So 200 * 1000 / 1024 = 195.3125

However the actual capacity may not even be that much because of manufacturing processes.

 

[LiquidX]

Great guys thanks. For for the life of me I couldnt remember 1gb=1024mb even after yahoo'ing it. BTW after install I ended up with about 186 of actual space.

 

[Ice Czar]

in addition to the loss you can attribute to the decimal to binary conversion
there is also filesystem overhead which varies a little bit from filesystem to filesystem

roughly once formatted you loose 10% give or take between them both