Comments on: Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters February 17th http://blog.terryscomputertips.com/2008/02/17/terrys-computer-tips-newsletters-february-17th/ Tips and News for PC Users Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: terry http://blog.terryscomputertips.com/2008/02/17/terrys-computer-tips-newsletters-february-17th/comment-page-1/#comment-11054 terry Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:44:01 +0000 http://blog.terryscomputertips.com/2008/02/17/terrys-computer-tips-newsletters-february-17th/#comment-11054 Alan, Unless you've found a 7 GB partition, you've got the right amount of space. 93 = 100, depending on how you count -- and I'm not talking about rounding, either. It all has to do with counting K as 1024 or 1000. There was a big lawsuit a number of years ago over the subject, so, at least here in the US, the hard drive boxes are all careful to say that they define GB as 1,000,000,000 instead of 1024 to the third power. Here's the rest of the story: <a href="http://www.terryscomputertips.com/computers/mystery-of-missing-hard-drive-space.php" rel="nofollow">Myster y of the Missing Hard Drive Space</a> Terry Alan,

Unless you’ve found a 7 GB partition, you’ve got the right amount of space.

93 = 100, depending on how you count — and I’m not talking about rounding, either.

It all has to do with counting K as 1024 or 1000. There was a big lawsuit a number of years ago over the subject, so, at least here in the US, the hard drive boxes are all careful to say that they define GB as 1,000,000,000 instead of 1024 to the third power.

Here’s the rest of the story:
Myster y of the Missing Hard Drive Space

Terry

]]> By: Alan Minnear http://blog.terryscomputertips.com/2008/02/17/terrys-computer-tips-newsletters-february-17th/comment-page-1/#comment-11053 Alan Minnear Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:39:15 +0000 http://blog.terryscomputertips.com/2008/02/17/terrys-computer-tips-newsletters-february-17th/#comment-11053 Terry, can you help please? I have a laptop drive from a laptop now housed in an external case through USB. It is 100gig, but there is a 7gig portion I cannot get rid of through formatting. It only reads 93gig. Is there a way to regain the missing space please? Terry, can you help please? I have a laptop drive from a laptop now housed in an external case through USB. It is 100gig, but there is a 7gig portion I cannot get rid of through formatting. It only reads 93gig. Is there a way to regain the missing space please?

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