Re: (OT) Help!! – Lost Gb’s during Hard Drive format!!

[Mal Lansell <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is if you're a lying HD manufacturer trying to make your disks sound
as big as possible.  To them 137Gb means 137,000,000,000 bytes.  This is
roughly 127Gb when calculated properly (ie when powers of 2 reign supreme)

Mal


Bricknell, Tony wrote:

>I thought the limit was 137GB...?
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>Also... from a quick google it would appear that you need WinXP SP1 to
>recognise a driver over 127GB - non SP1 stops at 127GB, see
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 12 July, 2004 11:15
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] (OT) Help!! – Lost Gb’s during Hard Drive
format!!
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>127Gb (real GB, not the fake HD manufacturer ones!) is one of those
>limits where the numbering scheme runs out and some new trick or
>technology is required to deal with larger capacity disks.
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>If you go to the website of the HD manufacturer, and search on capacity
>limits, you should find information on how to get access to the entire
>disk.  If the motherboard is failry new, it should be a case of setting
>something in the BIOS.  Even if it turns out that your motherboard
can't
>cope with disks this big, it is still possible to use the full capacity
>by installing a "dynamic drive overlay" program which will
also be
>available from the manufacturers site (this is what I had to do with
mine!).
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>Mal
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