A Partition shows only 15.B instead of 19GB

[Venkatesh V]

Win XP Professional is installed on a samsung HDD(7200rpm)
with four partitions (each 20GB).

In three partitions, it shows 19gb.

But, in one partition it shows 15gb. where did 4gb lost?
why is it so?

I asked the vendor (from whom i got it assemmbled). He told
that, it is a problem with Win XP professional. He also
told that the samsung HDD will show correct information,
only if it is Win2000 Professional.

my config. WinXP, ASUS A7N8X-deluxe, ATI radeon 9600XT,
512MD DDR RAM, AMD 2600+ (Barton 512k cache), samsung
HDD(7200rpm),sony dvd-drive, samsung cd-writer, a cabinet
with two cooling fans, samsung monitor and 500Va UPS.

Please provide the solluton for this

 

[PowerUser90_Italy]

I'ts a mess with 1000 and 1024 error.
if you buy a 80gb hard drive, it has never 80gb: it has 75/76 gb totally.

The same for every other hard disk, couse you must multiply and divide by
1024 and not 1000 to have the
right dimension

 

[Bob Willard]

Win XP Professional is installed on a samsung HDD(7200rpm)
with four partitions (each 20GB).

In three partitions, it shows 19gb.

But, in one partition it shows 15gb. where did 4gb lost?
why is it so?

I asked the vendor (from whom i got it assemmbled). He told
that, it is a problem with Win XP professional. He also
told that the samsung HDD will show correct information,
only if it is Win2000 Professional.

my config. WinXP, ASUS A7N8X-deluxe, ATI radeon 9600XT,
512MD DDR RAM, AMD 2600+ (Barton 512k cache), samsung
HDD(7200rpm),sony dvd-drive, samsung cd-writer, a cabinet
with two cooling fans, samsung monitor and 500Va UPS.

Please provide the solluton for this

I think that vendor is pulling your leg. Both XP and W2K use the
same definitions of disk size.

Bring up Explorer, then right-click on the drive (actually, that's
the partition), then click on Properties: that will show you the
drive's (part's) capacity, in bytes and in GB, thus avoiding confusion
over the two definitions of KB/MB/GB/etc.

If you bought a 80GB HD, then you bought 80,000,000,000 bytes of
storage capacity. If you add up the capacities of the four parts,
using the bytes data from the Properties display above, the total
should be about 80,000,000,000. If you add up the capacity using
the GB data from the Properties display above, the total should be
about 74.5 GB. The totals won't be exactly 80,000,000,000 bytes
or exactly 74.5 GB, because: (1) HD vendors frequently give you
more capacity than they advertise, and (2) partitioning the physical
drive incurs some overhead (even if there is only one part).

 

[Vanguardx]

Win XP Professional is installed on a samsung HDD(7200rpm)
with four partitions (each 20GB).

In three partitions, it shows 19gb.

But, in one partition it shows 15gb. where did 4gb lost?
why is it so?

I asked the vendor (from whom i got it assemmbled). He told
that, it is a problem with Win XP professional. He also
told that the samsung HDD will show correct information,
only if it is Win2000 Professional.

my config. WinXP, ASUS A7N8X-deluxe, ATI radeon 9600XT,
512MD DDR RAM, AMD 2600+ (Barton 512k cache), samsung
HDD(7200rpm),sony dvd-drive, samsung cd-writer, a cabinet
with two cooling fans, samsung monitor and 500Va UPS.

Please provide the solluton for this

Manufactures love to lie about their specs so they look better. They
use a decimal-based "gigabyte" whereas computers use a binary-based
(power of 2) "gigabyte". See
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gigabyte. Computers use
definition #1. Manufacturer use definition #2 to inflate their specs.

Manufacturers: 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
Computers: 1 GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes

So, according to the manufacturer, it is an 80GB drive. In reality it
is a 74.5GB drive (80,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = 74.5). 80 - 74.5 =
5.5, so now you know what happened to that bogus 5GB.

 

[Venkatesh V]

Thanks a lot for your comments

-----Original Message-----


I think that vendor is pulling your leg. Both XP and W2K use the
same definitions of disk size.

Bring up Explorer, then right-click on the drive (actually, that's
the partition), then click on Properties: that will show you the
drive's (part's) capacity, in bytes and in GB, thus avoiding confusion
over the two definitions of KB/MB/GB/etc.

If you bought a 80GB HD, then you bought 80,000,000,000 bytes of
storage capacity. If you add up the capacities of the four parts,
using the bytes data from the Properties display above, the total
should be about 80,000,000,000. If you add up the capacity using
the GB data from the Properties display above, the total should be
about 74.5 GB. The totals won't be exactly 80,000,000,000 bytes
or exactly 74.5 GB, because: (1) HD vendors frequently give you
more capacity than they advertise, and (2) partitioning the physical
drive incurs some overhead (even if there is only one part).