Re: partitions and total hard drive size shown
 

Keep In mind that a Megabyte Is actually 1,048,576 bytes and not an even 1
million. When these companies advertise thier drives as 250 gig and such,
they are really advertising It as an even million (or billion) bytes. So
your 250 gig drive will actually report as less In Windows explorer.


"Drew" <drew@drew.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> I have a Dell system with Windows XP, Service Pack 2 and one physical
> SATA hard drive of size advertised as 250 gigs.
>
> The system is set up with C as the OS partition, D as a data
> partition, and E as a programs partition.
>
> When I look under Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer
> Management and Disk Management and right click on Disk 0 (the only
> hard drive in system) and do properties and select volumes, the screen
> tells me that:
>
> Disk 0 is a Basic disk with a capacity of 238418 MB and with
> unallocated space of 0 MB and reserved space of 0 MB.
>
> The volumes are shown as:
>
> Volume Capacity
> ---------------------------------------
> Data (D:) 112000 MB
> OS (C:) 26004 MB
> PROGRAMS (E:) 100414 MB
>
>
> Totaling those three up matches the 238418 MB shown in capacity above,
> but doesn't match the 250 gig system advertised size.
>
> However, unallocated and reserved space are both shown as 0 as well.
>
> Although its a small percentage of the drive, I can't account for
> 11,582 megs of the disk space. Should the capacity not be shown as
> 250000 MB?
>
> I know that the setup process of Windows reserves a small amount of
> space if you ever want to convert from a basic to a dynamic disk but I
> was thinking that this was never more than 10 megs or so plus the
> above info also indicates 0 MB for reserved space.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious! Can someone assist?
>
> Much appreciated!
>
> Drew
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