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Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by BladeTurbo, 2003/09/06.

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  1. 2003/09/06
    BladeTurbo

    BladeTurbo Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi All, i just picked up a new wd 80gb hdd and winxp only sees 74.6gb. is there anyway to fix this?



    thanks
    Brad
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    Thats normal. I can't find my notes, but generally speaking HDD makers count a gig as 1.064meg a bytes and windows counts it at 1.000 . I'm probably way off on the numbers, but you get the idea.

    My internal WD 80gig is seen as 74.5
    My external Max 80gig is seen as 76.3
     
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    PeteC

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    Plus some space is taken up when formatting with the file system, etc
     
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