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| 820838 | 2009-10-15 05:46:00 | Yesterday while on AIDA32 I found something interesting. It said that I have a WDC WD800JD-75MSA3 Western Digital 80GB HDD. I was suprised at the 80GB, because in diskmgmt.msc (Disk Management) it says I have only 75GB. Does anyone know why? And when I go into cmd > diskpart > list volume > select volume 1 > list partition it says: Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- *Partition 1 Primary 75 GB 10 KB Partition 2 Extended 24 GB 50 GB Why does it say Partition 2 Extended 24 GB 50 GB What does the 50GB mean? Doesn't the WDC WD800JD-75MSA3 have only 80GB? (It says 75GB+24GB) Whats the * for? Thanks |
mathsgood (13356) | ||
| 820839 | 2009-10-15 06:01:00 | Yesterday while on AIDA32 I found something interesting. It said that I have a WDC WD800JD-75MSA3 Western Digital 80GB HDD. I was suprised at the 80GB, because in diskmgmt.msc (Disk Management) it says I have only 75GB. Yeah that's about right. HDD manufacturers think 80gb is 80,000mb rather than 81 920... Edit: I realise that would be 78gb not 75, but I guess it's just marketing (or I'm wrong). |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 820840 | 2009-10-15 06:33:00 | Yes this applies as well to the Gigabyte as to Kilobyte www.xkcd.com But seriously. en.wikipedia.org |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 820841 | 2009-10-16 01:49:00 | 80GB (disk manufacturer) <=> 75GB (operating system) is about right 80,000,000,000 / (1024^3) = 74.505806 |
AvonBill (11358) | ||
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