where's my gig'n change?

[Roly]

Hi folks Today I removed the partition from a 40 gig drive and formated it with P Magic. P Magic tells me it's 38.something. I'm down a gig and change and don't have a clue what to do. Any advice? cheers Roly

[Roy Howell]

Roly,
Somebody's gonna come along and explain exactly why that is, but it's always that way. Most drives are less 'Gig n change' from what they're supposed to be. I've had 2 40gb drives, and both show up exactly like yours. Same with my 20 gb drives. I believe it's there, but used for something else.

Roy

[Roly]

Thanks Roy, I feel better. Remember when a gig was 1/2 your drive space?

[N-G-NEER]

Hey guys
I remember when a Gig was unheard of and if you had a 40 Mg drive you where a that. The additional space is eaten by the Format unfortunatly nobody tells you that but the bigger the drive the more goes to the format. Some of the Drive manufacturers are listing there drive sizes after format i.e. xyz manufacturer say thier drive is 80 Gigs when in truth it is 82.4 Gig which gives you 80 Gigs after formating the drive. hats off to those manufacturers. The drive space on this example is not accurate, there is an equasion but it escapes me at the moment. It is also different for different systems i.e. FAT16 vs FAT 32 etc.

[Roly]

NGNEER- You must have had one of them steam computers. Thank you for the details. Roly

[STUDIO-DE-ARIEL]

according to my most recent format 1 mega byte = 1048576 bytes so it gets eaten up there
Beau

[Sixpence]

well the oldest laptop i have lying around here is an IBM thinkpad 340 with a whooping 125 Mb of Hard Disk... it runs a really old version of cubase under Win 3.11... I have more memory in my compaq 1245 laptop ( any takers?)

[mattm]

i had this smokin' 486 DX33 pc when i finished school. it was cutting edge, what with 12MB RAM, and a smokin' 210MB EIDE hard drive that i partitioned into 4!!!!!! between the disk compression (i can't remember what it was called but microsoft stole it and it became known as 'Doublespace') and Norton Desktop, it was an absolute bitchin' machine. norton made the windows 3.11 desktop like a mac and you could execute any DOS app without having to boot to a different streamlined autoexec.bat/config.....

then came windows 95 and it all went south. i went south too and discovered the apple macintosh. onboard audio and midi, what more could i ask for?

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[jeffinmarin]

Here in Marin,you're lucky if you get ANY change for playin' the gig.