Partitioning

I'm running, AMD Athlon 2800+, A7N8X-Deluxe, Corsair
512DDR PC3200 Twinx, Seagate 80G, Seagate 40G.
During brand new installation, XP will not partition over
73gig.
What dumb thing did I do?

You are very ignorant and rude. Unless you have something of value
to contribute, you should refrain from posting.

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Nicholas

Greetings --

1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes

It may be that Windows is accurately reporting the true size of
your hard drive. 73 x 1,073,741,824 = 78,383,153,152 bytes, which
your hard drive's manufacturer is rounding off and calling 80 Gb.
This is a common marketing tactic (assigning an even 1,000,000,000
bytes to the gigabyte) used by hard drive manufacturers to make their
products seem a bit larger than they really are.

Or are you seeing unallocated space on the physical drive that you
cannot access?


Bruce Chambers

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"Phil" <a117179@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:06d501c343be$a3208310$a101280a@phx.gbl...

> I'm running, AMD Athlon 2800+, A7N8X-Deluxe, Corsair
> 512DDR PC3200 Twinx, Seagate 80G, Seagate 40G.
> During brand new installation, XP will not partition over
> 73gig.
> What dumb thing did I do?

How are you trying to format it? NTFS I would imagine if you are not
partitioning it. This would sound just about right.
I formatted a 100GB drive in NTFS and ended up with 93GB of available space.

Remember, drive manufacturers usually spec. their drives using a factor of 1,000
as 1KB and 1,000,000 as 1MB, but that is not how computers usually present
capacity (1GB=1024^3). A standard 80GB drive is truly around 74.5GB unformatted
and with the overhead involved with laying the file system out will reduce this
to an even smaller number.

Paul

"Phil" <a117179@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:06d501c343be$a3208310$a101280a@phx.gbl...

> I'm running, AMD Athlon 2800+, A7N8X-Deluxe, Corsair
> 512DDR PC3200 Twinx, Seagate 80G, Seagate 40G.
> During brand new installation, XP will not partition over
> 73gig.
> What dumb thing did I do?

"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospam.cableone.net> wrote in message news:vgghmrqiae0v8e@corp.supernews.com...

> Greetings --
>
> 1 Kb = 1024 bytes
> 1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
> 1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes
>
> It may be that Windows is accurately reporting the true size of
> your hard drive. 73 x 1,073,741,824 = 78,383,153,152 bytes, which
> your hard drive's manufacturer is rounding off and calling 80 Gb.
> This is a common marketing tactic (assigning an even 1,000,000,000
> bytes to the gigabyte) used by hard drive manufacturers to make their
> products seem a bit larger than they really are.
>

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Now you have HDD manufacturers ripping people off for for than what they sell the drives for. You are a fuckwit of the highest order. I see you still are basing your bullshit in a way that manufacturers already place the byte units on the drive in a binary fashion! You cannot just come up with "73" gigs and say that this is how manufacturers do this.

Read here you fucking pillocking cunt;

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/curre...?Model=WD800BB

and read the footnote(s)

Have reasontly upgraded to xp, not giving myself enough
space for extra information how do I transfer mg to main
hardrive??????

You will need to get a 3rd party utility which will allow your to modify
partitions. Partition Magic is one such utility. After installing the
utility, you should be able to add MBs for the un-allocated drive space.

Y.

"Billy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:075a01c3b80a$8b881180$a401280a@phx.gbl...

> Have reasontly upgraded to xp, not giving myself enough
> space for extra information how do I transfer mg to main
> hardrive??????
>