Hard drives and their marketing space?

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  1. b0nkers

    b0nkers Member

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    Hi, I have a 4 gig hard drive. With the marketing thing, what is the real space on the hard drive?
     
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    what do you mean by marketing thing as a 4 gig is seen by the bios as a 4gig or 4.096gig
     
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    about 3.6 ish
    devide 4000 by 1024 get an answer
     
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    Thx. Hmm I bought a 4 gig hard drive but my PC only gives me 3 gig...how get i get the rest of the space?
     
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    You can't, hdd makers kind of do false advertising they tell you how big it is in bytes not gigabytes, can't believe that they get away with it too!!
     
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    you can't the guy who sells the harddrive uses a marketing ploy
    heres a 4 gigabyte hardrive but it's actually only a 3 point summat harddrive and thats all you can have sorry
    you have to devide the 4 gigs by 1024 to get the real size
     
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    ' Thx. Hmm I bought a 4 gig hard drive but my PC only gives me 3 gig...how get i get the rest of the space?'


    sounds like it is not partitioned correctly if you have lost a whole gb. that whole divide by 1024 stuff should only mean you lose a couple hundred mb

    check the manufacturers website and they should have downloadable tools that allow you to correctly partition the disc - ofcourse you will need a reformat so make sure you back up the data on the drive first.

    if the manufacturer does not list any program then you can try here - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348
     
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