Slip Kid Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Simply put, I have a WD Hard Drive with 250gb. While Windows does detect it has 250,056,704,000 bytes it only say i have 232gb.I have WINXP on my other WD (20GB) and it runs fine. I have Vista on the drive that has the problem, but I know it isn't Vista that's causing the problem. Before install Vista I just had music and pictures on the drive so..Any information or tips that could help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raddy Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Many hard drive manufacturers use 1,000,000,000 as their basis for a gigabyte, as opposed to 1,073,741,824, which is what the computer uses as their basis for a gig. If you do the math, you'll find that the space Windows says is there divided by the true number of bytes in a gigabyte works out to be 232.8 gigs. It's a little shady, but if you look on the bottom of the hard drive box, the fine print shows their basis for the gigabyte. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 It's about time that we had a world wide standard with one, and one only firm measurement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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