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Mr_Gl@ss · 06-13-2005, 08:46 AM

[quote="Short Hand":423de]+ for gerv and akuma, is it normal to lose 11 gb of storage on a drive after it has been formatted ? it reads as 149gb of storage...on my old 40gb drive I only lost 1.5gb of space.. im losing close to 11gb on this one.. is this normal on larger drives ?[/quote:423de]

It's all about the marketing see? The hard drive manufacturers count megabytes one way and windows counts it another. If it was a retail drive there's usually a disclaimer somewhere about this. Semi related, few years ago watched an old guy break out a ruller at Best Buy when he was looking to buy a 17" montor (CRT), was demanding to know why his 17" monitor wasn't 17 inches.

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Mr_Gl@ss is Offline Senior Member Posts: 182 Join Date: Oct 2004	06-13-2005, 08:46 AM [quote="Short Hand":423de]+ for gerv and akuma, is it normal to lose 11 gb of storage on a drive after it has been formatted ? it reads as 149gb of storage...on my old 40gb drive I only lost 1.5gb of space.. im losing close to 11gb on this one.. is this normal on larger drives ?[/quote:423de] It's all about the marketing see? The hard drive manufacturers count megabytes one way and windows counts it another. If it was a retail drive there's usually a disclaimer somewhere about this. Semi related, few years ago watched an old guy break out a ruller at Best Buy when he was looking to buy a 17" montor (CRT), was demanding to know why his 17" monitor wasn't 17 inches.