1gb = 1024mb?

[Maverick2002]

So I'm trying to make an even 100gb partition on a hard drive I have, and I'm wondering what I should put in as the value in MB to reach 100gb ... 102400MB?

 

[Pariah]

yes

multiply GB desired by 1024 for MB
multiply GB desired by 1024 twice for KB
multiply GB desired by 1024 three times for bytes

 

[NautikaL 8]

i dont think windows will even show it as 100gb. it has some weird thing of making the drive 15/16ths of its size or something. read it somewhere and dont know why. but thats why my 160gb hard drive is only 150gb. i think most of us know that though.

but to answer ur question...
if windows shows that ur hard drive is 93.75% of its true size in megabytes when it asks you to create a partition, then i think it would be 102400mb =100gb.

 

[mkruer]

Sorry Wrong Answer. The reason why a 160GB disk on Windows appears to be only 150GB is because all drive manufactories uses Decimal system, and not the binary system that computer are used so a drive that is 160GB

160GB Decimal = 160,000,000,000
160GB Binary = 171,798,691,840

Or 160GB Decimal = 149 GB Binary

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: mkruer
Sorry Wrong Answer. The reason why a 160GB disk on Windows appears to be only 150GB is because all drive manufactories uses Decimal system, and not the binary system that computer are used so a drive that is 160GB

160GB Decimal = 160,000,000,000
160GB Binary = 171,798,691,840

Or 160GB Decimal = 149 GB Binary

Yeah what he said. Although windows counts by binary so 100 gb will be 102400 MB

 

[NautikaL 8]

yea whatever read it 2+ years ago

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Desired Size / 1000 * 1024 = Desired Size