Missing some MB

[glasshopper]

Good day.

I fdisked a single partition on a 10.2GB HDD, enabling large disk support (ie FAT32). The fdisk utility was on a Win95 SE emergency boot disk. When I then used the EBD to format the HD, it gave the total formatted as around 9770 MB. Windows now sees the disk as approx. 9.5GB. Is this right? Please explain.

 

[Bglad]

Disk manufacturers figure 1MB = 1000 bytes but windows figures 1MB = 1024 bytes. When you format, Windows figures 10,200/1024 = 9.96MB. A bit extra will be used in formatting. If Windows is reporting 9.5, you obviously already loaded the OS which took up around 300MB give or take. This is perfectly normal and almost exactly what you reported.

 

[Edski]

Bglad is right. If you want to make sure that you have the full capacity of the drive, in Win9x, right click on your "C:" drive and go to properties. It will say 9.5 Gigs, but if you look next to that it should show the actual number of bytes which will be 10,xxx,xxx,xxx

 

[Henry Kuo]

Yeah, luckily you got a 10G drive. If you get a 60G drive, you will cry after you format it