hard disk size

[VW]

Hi,

I installed Windows Server 2000 SP4 on a 200Gb disk
drive. It only recognized 137Gb. I then added the
registry key as specified in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;305098
This then allowed me to see 187Gb. My BIOS sees a tad
over 200Gb. What's happening to the 13Gigs?

Thanks for any help,
VW

 

[VW]

After digging around, I've discovered the following:

My hard drive is advertised as 200GB which is actually
200,000,000,000 bytes (there's the catch!). If we do the
math, there are 1024 bytes in a Kb, so to convert
200,000,000,000 into the real Gb value, we divide by 1024
3 times (200,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024) to get
186.26Gb. Which is what I am seeing in Windows. So the
advertising of 200Gb when it is actually 186.26Gb seems
to have thrown me off!

I hope this helps in the future!

VW

 

[Mike Brown]

After digging around, I've discovered the following:

My hard drive is advertised as 200GB which is actually
200,000,000,000 bytes (there's the catch!). If we do the
math, there are 1024 bytes in a Kb, so to convert
200,000,000,000 into the real Gb value, we divide by 1024
3 times (200,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024) to get
186.26Gb. Which is what I am seeing in Windows. So the
advertising of 200Gb when it is actually 186.26Gb seems
to have thrown me off!

I hope this helps in the future!

VW

This is common practice and IMO is false advertising, but who am I to
question the industry

If RAM was sold this way, people would notice. If milk or gasoline were
sold this way, the masses would revolt.

--

Mike Brown
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