Hard drize size is incorrectly displayed.

[Guest]

When I single click on my hard drive (Local disk C in my computer It shows
that I have A total size of 139 GB and a free space of 134 GB. But I have a
150 GB hard drive. However when I right click over the same Icon and click
properties it shows that I have 150,029,074,432 bytes capacity that it
incorrectly calculates to read 139 GB with Used space of 5,821,394,944 that
it incorrectly calculates to 5.42 GB it says that I have Free space of
144,207,679,488 that it calculates out to 134 GB. Is there any way to make
windows correctly display the hard size??? I have had serveral blue screen
crahes and have lost some data. After spending allot of time reading thru
Microsoft and Western Digital technical support forums I have tried
everything any help would be appreciated.

I am running Windows XP Profewssional Version 2002 Service Pack 2. I have
used Windows update to get all of the updates and drivers. I have also used
Westerndigital Data Life guards verision 11.3 software My mother board is a
Asus M2N32-SLI DELUXE Wireless Edition nForce 590 SLI with the latest BIOS.
My Hard Rive is a Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB Serial ATA
10,000RPM. Again any help would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rob,

Windows is correctly displaying the hard drive size. Most, if not all, hard
drive manufacturers report drive size using the decimal numbering system,
whereas Windows is reporting the drive size using the binary numbering system.
Using the decimal numbering system, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
Using the binary numbering system, 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes

If you take the size of the drive, expressed in bytes (150,029,074,432 ) and
divide this by the number of bytes in 1GB, using the binary numbering system
(1,073,741,824), you would find that the drive is indeed 139GB



Regards,

 

[Swifty]

Windows is correctly displaying the hard drive size. Most, if not all, hard

drive manufacturers report drive size using the decimal numbering system,
whereas Windows is reporting the drive size using the binary numbering system.

This applies almost everywhere across the IT industry, where 1K = 1024.
The only exception is when setting your salary, when 1K = 1000 at all
times.

 

[Zilbandy]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 22:34:00 -0700, Rob in AK <Rob in

Used space of 5,821,394,944 that
it incorrectly calculates to 5.42 GB it says that I have Free space of
144,207,679,488 that it calculates out to 134 GB. Is there any way to make
windows correctly display the hard size??? I have had serveral blue screen
crahes and have lost some data. After spending allot of time reading thru
Microsoft and Western Digital technical support forums I have tried
everything any help would be appreciated.

You have to remember that in the computer world, a kilobyte is
actually 1024 bytes, not just 1000 bytes. Likewise, a megabyte is 1024
kilobytes and a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. I'll leave it to you to do
the math, but the numbers you listed are actually quite close.