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doctorgonzo · 11-14-2003, 08:41 AM

Yes, you are going to get less space when you format a drive. The difference is that HD manufacturers list capacity in decimal numbers, so 40 GB on the package means 40,000,000,000 to them. The real size shown by Windows is in base-2 numbers: 40,000,000,000 bytes is shown as 37.253 GB.

11-14-2003, 08:41 AM	#22
doctorgonzo Professional gadfly Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 6,364	Yes, you are going to get less space when you format a drive. The difference is that HD manufacturers list capacity in decimal numbers, so 40 GB on the package means 40,000,000,000 to them. The real size shown by Windows is in base-2 numbers: 40,000,000,000 bytes is shown as 37.253 GB.