Partitioning a hard drive...

[AMDPwred]

I downloaded a program to help me partition my existing hard drive into three (from one). My simple question, how many KB would be 2GB? And how many would be 5GB?

 

[MCS]

You downloaded a program? All you need is a boot disk with fdisk on it...

For the sizes, depends on how accurate it needs to be but I just multiply by 1000 to make it easier.

 

[yazman]

1MB = 1024 KB
1GB = 1024 MB
1GB = 1024 * 1024 = 1048576KB
5 GB = 5 * 1048576 KB = 5242880 KB

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< You downloaded a program? All you need is a boot disk with fdisk on it...

For the sizes, depends on how accurate it needs to be but I just multiply by 1000 to make it easier. >>



He doesn't want to destroy data. And 1024KB is TECHNICALLY 1MB to everyone EXCEPT HDD manufacturers 😉

 

[yazman]

Just don't be surprised later when you
add up the sizes of your partitions in
Windows it won't match what it says
on the box ( it will be smaller),
because manufacturers use 1MB = 1000KB
while everybody and everything including windows
uses 1MB = 1024KB. So basically you &quot;lose&quot;
24KB on every MB, and the bigger the HD the
bigger the &quot;loss&quot; from what it says on the box.

 

[JPQ]

<< I downloaded a program to help me partition my existing hard drive into three (from one). My simple question, how many KB would be 2GB? And how many would be 5GB? >>



Without getting to technical, we'll talk round numbers:

1GB = 1,000,000,000 (one billion bytes) or 1,000,000 KB (one million kilobytes)

so...

2GB = 2,000,000 KB (two million kilobytes)
5GB = 5,000,000 KB (five milloin kilobytes)


Here is a good link to a converter...

Hope this helps.
Jim

 

[yazman]

I'm not being too technical just trying to help the guy out
so he doesn't get a surprise in Windows when his partition
shows up as 4.77 GB instead of 5GB that's all.