Hard disk ! HELP on formating

cow_theboy

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machanla,

My new hard eka xp dala thibbe.. 250 GB.. format kraddi pennuwa 248 GB... but den mama windows 7 danna yanne..

windows 7 dala partitions okkoma delete kara... ethakota pennanne 232 GB kiyala.. e kiyanne un allocated space eka 232GB ithuru 18 ta mokada une...


:(((((((
 

OptiplexFx

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Hard disk manufacturers la hard disk size eka maninne hora widihakata. Egollo KB kiyanne 1000bytes wlata, namuth computer science wala 1KB = 2^10 = 1024bytes. .

Eka nissa aththatama 350GB = (350 x 1000 x 1000 ) / (1024 x 1024 ) = 333GB

Eka nissa oya pennana gaana hari.
 
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GNS

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Factory eken HDD eke size measure karanne 250 = 250 * 1000 * 1000

but OS eken ooka ganne 1024

so, 250,000,000 / 1024 = 244140.625 (MB)

and

244140 / 1024 = 238 (GB)
 

GNS

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OptiplexFx said:
Hard disk manufacturers la hard disk size eka maninne hora widihakata. Egollo KB kiyanne 1000bytes wlata, namuth computer science wala 1KB = 2^10 = 1024bytes. .

Eka nissa aththatama 350GB = (350 x 1000 x 1000 ) / (1024 x 1024 ) = 333GB

Eka nissa oya pennana gaana hari.

machan, uba Mac da use karanne? :rolleyes: