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Julian Hall wrote: > My comment came as the result of a letter in Computer Shopper 149 > (November) where a reader was confused by his HD having much less > space left than he thought it should. The reply given in the magazine > did refer to HD manufacturers using the denary (1000) Mb definition > while the computer uses the binary definition. In this case he had a > 200Gb HD which had 34Gb used. Even accounting for 200Gb being the > unformatted size, the 77Gb Windows reported as free space sounds well > off. The letter mentioned that with the denary/binary discrepancy you > lose 3Gb for every 40Gb. I haven't done the maths to check that, but > for a 200Gb drive that would mean you lose 15Gb before you even format > the drive. Mind you the penny just dropped that he *may* also have a > hidden recovery partition. Even so, it's still a dodgy practise. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > Oops. Read the letter wrong... 120Gb HD, so losing 9Gb gives 111Gb capacity. 34+77 would give the 111 left. Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html