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seagate 320 gb

  • 29-11-2006 8:29pm
    #1
    ldr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭


    hello everyone i just bought a external HD seagate 320 gb but when i plug it to the pc only says 298GB why is that???
    i also formated the drive from fat 32 to ntfs

    thank you for your help


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  • #2
    irishshogun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭irishshogun


    Hard drive maker define a gig as a 1000 megabytes whereas you PC see a gig as 1024 megabytes, multiply the 320 by 24 bytes and theres the missing space, plus a bit lost due to formatting.
    Simplified but I hope this helps.


  • #3
    ldr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭ldr


    thank you for your help.
    i just finnished formating the HD and i have now 319 something GB.
    NTFS type is alot better then fat32.
    thank you again


  • #4
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Its a flagrant misadvertising that I think we need to picket... now, do seagate have a HQ in Ireland?


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