Whr is 2 Gb ?

[vimalonline]

Hi all,

My computer shows only 38 gb of hard disk. But am using 40 gb HDD. Whr the remaining 2 gb gone ???

Anybody pls help !!!!!!!!!

 

[hailgautam]

That is due to the sales promotion gimmick of the Hard Disk Manufactures. They count the disk space in the power of 10s while widows counts in power of 2s and there lies the differance.

eg 1 mb = 10x10x10 = 1000 bytes as per hard-disk manufacturer
1 mb = 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2= 1024 bytes as per windows

so when Hard Disk Manufacturer will show that you have 1 MB, windows will show that you have something like 0.98 MB

 

[the.kaushik]

always multiple the exact value shown with 1024*1024
say u have ur hd showing 38.4 GB means 38.4*1024*1024 and u get the value in bytes... which is the exact content

 

[ravi_9793]

yeah..hailgautam and the.kaushik are right.
hard disk manufactures count 40 Gb as 40,000,000,000 bytes..which when conuted in 1024 term will give you around 38 Gb.

so,no need to worry.

 

[aj27july]

ya they all are right
its 37.252902984619140625 Gb

 

[piyush gupta]

Ya its like that as everyone geek here said

U always get something like 38GB on 40GB HDD

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

Bcoz the computer adopts the easy method for counting bytes.IT take 1kb to 1000bytes,1mb to 1000kb and so on.Th4ere is nothing to worry.
I have 80gb and the total is 76gb.
lol computer is alsi lol!!
I wonder why is it so?
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[uchiha.sasuke]

its d marketing strategy of HD maker

 

[ApoorvKhatreja]

^^
It isn;t no marketing strategy, neither is the computer 'aalsi', it is we who are 'aalsi', the decimal system is much more convinient for us than the binary system. Also 80 GB is more of a rounded off figure, rather than 74.3 GB or something else. Easier to remember for us.

 

[vimalonline]

thank guys for ur reply....

 

[krates]

always multiple the exact value shown with 1024*1024
say u have ur hd showing 38.4 GB means 38.4*1024*1024 and u get the value in bytes... which is the exact content

But i Am Having 80 GB But When I Total All The Drives It's Showing Only 74 GB
I Applied Your Method But It Showing Me 77594624 bytes

 

[techtronic]

Thanks for helping me guys
I didnt know this

 

[nileshgr]

Bcoz the computer adopts the easy method for counting bytes.IT take 1kb to 1000bytes,1mb to 1000kb and so on.Th4ere is nothing to worry.
I have 80gb and the total is 76gb.
lol computer is alsi lol!!
I wonder why is it so?
*smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_19_3.gif

from where did u brng that smiley?

 

[Pathik]

go here
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and post any smiley using the image tag...

 

[nileshgr]

go here
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and post any smiley using the image tag... [/QUOTE]
THX.
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+1 for you Pathik Shah

 

[webgenius]

I get only 232 GB on my 250GB hdd