calculating hard drive size

[PurePeon]

anyone know you need to calculate the hard drive size? is it cylinders x sectors x 1024?

 

[Pariah]

sectors x bytes/sector (typically 512bytes)
divide that by 1024 for KB's divide again by 1024 for MB's divide again by 1024 for GB's

 

[PurePeon]

does sectors include all the cylinders? or is per cylinder?

 

[Pariah]

Sectors are the smallest storage block on a hard drive. They're like clusters in a file system. Count all of them, multiply that by their capacity and you have total capacity.