HDD

[Smash Bros]

i have a 60 gig HDD yet it is only running at 50 gig. it is not partioned and it will only register at about 53 gig with 3 gig on the OS.

my question is how to i optimise the HDD so that it is at full capiticty?

[TraPStaR]

thats normal, some things are better off unexplained... ;)

[Smash Bros]

thats normal, some things are better off unexplained... ;)

damn it. i wanted to get an extra 7 gig out of the computer. that would make me have a total of 135

[Colonel Sanders]

Yeh for example one of my drives, an 80 gig has only a max capacity of 76... I knew it was normal for all hardrives but I never really bothered to do the research why.lol

[Smash Bros]

lol. im going to find out why now lol.

[Smash Bros]

Operating systems frequently report capacity using the same abbreviations but with a binary interpretation. For instance, the prefix mega can also mean 220 (1,048,576), which is approximately 1,000,000. Similar usage has been applied to prefixes of greater magnitude. This results in a discrepancy between the disk manufacturer's stated capacity and what the system reports. The difference becomes much more noticeable in the multi-gigabyte range. For example, Microsoft Windows reports disk capacity both in decimal to 12 or more significant digits and with binary prefixes to 3 significant digits. Thus a disk specified by a disk manufacturer as a 30 GB disk might have its capacity reported by Windows 2000 both as "30,065,098,568 bytes" and "28.0 GB" The disk manufacturer used the SI definition of "giga", 109 to arrive at 30 GB; however, because the utilities provided by Windows define a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes (230 bytes, properly known as gibibyte, or GiB), the operating system reports capacity of the disk drive as 28.0 GB.

[TraPStaR]

there ya go bud :)

[Dymond]

Yupp.. its called a real Megabyte VS a marketing Megabyte.. I used to have to explain that people on the phone all the time when I worked at Iomega.. A 100 MB Zip disk was only 96 real Megs..

[Smash Bros]

Yupp.. its called a real Megabyte VS a marketing Megabyte.. I used to have to explain that people on the phone all the time when I worked at Iomega.. A 100 MB Zip disk was only 96 real Megs..

lol. answered my own question lol. ohwell. fucking companies :@ :@ :@ :@