overcoming the 300 gigabyte limit

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I have a StorTecc pm-525c2-eps external hard drive case. I have a 320
gigabyte hard drive embedded. Why does this external case limit the amount
of hard drive space available to 300 gigabytes?



Is their a way for me to over come this limitation? Can someone explain why
this external case has such a strange limitation? Does Windows 2000 have
some limit in hard drive space that I am not aware of? I did modify the
registry for the 130 gigabytes issue they had.



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I have a StorTecc pm-525c2-eps external hard drive case. I have a 320
gigabyte hard drive embedded. Why does this external case limit the amount
of hard drive space available to 300 gigabytes?
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It doesn't.

You're looking at the variance between binary measures and decimal
measures.

320 * 1,000 * 1,000 * 1,000 = 320,000,000,000 bytes.

Now, 298 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 319,975,063,552 bytes.

So, 298G in binary = 320G in decimal.
Is their a way for me to over come this limitation? Can someone explain why
this external case has such a strange limitation? Does Windows 2000 have
some limit in hard drive space that I am not aware of? I did modify the
registry for the 130 gigabytes issue they had.
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And THAT was a 128G or 137G limit - depending on binary (where the
problem is) or decimal.

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