USB Size not accurate

[Gord Stephan]

I have a 160 GB USB external HD. When I connect to XP HOME it only
recognizes 149 GB of available space.

How can I fix this?

Gord

 

[Jason Tsang]

That size is accurate.

It is all in the definition of a megabyte.

Hard drive manufacturers use 1 mb = 1000000 bytes
Windows uses 1 mb = 1048576 bytes.

 

[Gord Stephan]

thank you

Gord

That size is accurate.

It is all in the definition of a megabyte.

Hard drive manufacturers use 1 mb = 1000000 bytes
Windows uses 1 mb = 1048576 bytes.

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[Jason Tsang]

More information is available here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Since there are 1,073,741,824 bytes in a gigabyte, a drive of 160 billion
bytes holds 149GB.