Hard Drive capacity descrepancy

[ahurtt]

Ok, here's the problem in a nutshell.
I've got a 7200RPM IBM 10.1Gig IDE drive.
Windows 98 reports its max capacity as 9.4 Gigs. I formatted in FAT32. What gives?
Thanks in advance.

[Ziz]

See how many bytes 95 is saying it has. My 8.4 G Maxtor reads as 8,381,575,168 bytes, 7.80 Gig, formatted under FAT32/Win98. Zip disks read as 100-something bytes, but 95 gig. I don't know if this qualifies as a technical defect or false advertising, but the discrepancy exists on all disks.

[Josh]

Hey, I think that this may help explain it to you.


http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/megabyte.htm
http://www.whatis.com/megabyte.htm

[Daze]

Eh... it's quite simple. 1 MB is not 1000 bytes but 1024 bytes. So talking in capacities of several Gig's that extra 24 bytes can difference a lot of mb's...