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Hard drive missing space?

Feb 27th, 2005

Hi I hope you guys an help me. I have just built a PC and put two SATA Seagate hard drives in (ST3160827AS) both 160 GBs.

The thing is in “my computers�?, it states that both hard drives have a capacity of 160,039,239,680 bytes and then beside it 149GBs.

What was happened to the other 11 gigs on both drives as I can not seem to get access to them.

All suggestions welcome, thanks!

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Re: Hard drive missing space?

Feb 27th, 2005

Welcome to the fun world of hard drive marketing. See, the HD manufactures say the 1000 bytes=kilobyte, 1000K=megabyte, and 1000MB=1Gigabyte. But really it's 1024 bytes=kilobyte, 1024K=megabyte, and 1024MB=1Gigabyte. So take 160X1000X1000X1000/1024/1024/1024=~149GB