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Missing HD space with WD drives...

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damngood

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Hi guys, I've got a WD 600BB drive (60.0 GB, 7200rpm) and when I've formatted it and everything in WinXP, it only shows about 55.0 GB of space. My buddy just bought a WDD 80BB drive (80.0 GB) and his only gets 75.0 GB.

Does anyone have any ideas with this? Does this always happen? All my partitions are NTFS. I used to have a 20.0 GB drive, and it was fine.
 
This is normal. Hardrive makers state hardrive space by 1000MB = 1GB, All operating systems go by 1024MB = 1GB. And you also loose a little space to file system overhead.
 
Right click on your local disk, and go to properties. How many bytes does it say you have? Just wondering.
 
You lose nothing. It is an 80GB drive when 1GB=1,000,000,000bytes. It is about 74.5GB when 1GB=1,073,741,824 bytes. It's basically marketing stuff.
 


<< You lose nothing. It is an 80GB drive when 1GB=1,000,000,000bytes. It is about 74.5GB when 1GB=1,073,741,824 bytes. It's basically marketing stuff. >>



imagine if they did their math like a computer. then it would be 80GB truly. that's be scary sometimes.
 


<< imagine if they did their math like a computer. then it would be 80GB truly. that's be scary sometimes. >>



Yeah me too, I don't see that happening though cause it would cost them more $$$. I bought a 45gig drive and get to use about 42gig. Oh well, such is the way of the world.

-Az

 
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