re: hard drive room Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 6:16 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (7840 messages posted) Falcon gives you the math but for clarification, drive makers use decimal math to calculate drive size computers use binary math to do it You are getting the full drive size, here is some further reading on the topic http://www.pcguide.com/intro/fun/bindec-c.html Regards, Adam Bradley On Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 5:03 pm, phycojoe wrote: >is there something wrong with my external hard drive it is suppose to be 120gb but >when i look at the properties it says it is only 111gb. it is a fat32 format and >im using it on a xp sp2 home edition. if i convert it to ntfs will that make it >what it is suppose to be? Written in response to: hard drive room (phycojoe: Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 5:03 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] hard drive room (phycojoe: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 5:03 pm) re: hard drive room (Falcon: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 5:09 pm) re: hard drive room (Adam Bradley: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 6:16 pm) And... (Adam Bradley: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 6:21 pm) re: hard drive room (Ricer46: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 8:58 pm) re: hard drive room (phycojoe: Sat, Oct 22, 2005, 9:32 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum