Stremik Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Fiew days ago I reformatted harddrive and reinstalled Windows. The harddrive is 80 GB. After formatting I ended up with 76.600 and something Where the heck did those 3.5 GB of space go? Anyone? How can I get them back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szymon Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 It happen when you work with big hard disks and fat instead of fat32 or ntfs partition file format. Try Partition Magic from www.powerquest.com to manage your partition. You can resize them without loosing your files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted November 26, 2002 Author Share Posted November 26, 2002 I didn't loose any files. Just the 3.5 GB of space. I also do use Partition Magic and it doesn't find that space ither. On the plus side, Partition Magic was able to retreve those 8MB of space which are being used during installation of Windows. You know. That unpartitioned space which is allways there after installing Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Stremik I don't think there's anything wrong with your drive. I think it goes the following way: The 80 GB apprearing in the disk label means 80,000 millions of bytes. But that's not 80,000 Megabytes in the way computers count Megabytes and Kilobytes... (8 * 10^10 bytes) * (1Kb/1024byte) * (1Mb/1024kb) = 76293.9453125 Mb That's roughly 76300 Megabytes. At least that's how I understand it. A similar thing happened with CD-R discs that announced 680 MB capacity, that's 680 million bytes, roughly 650Mbytes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 btw, does anyone know why a "billion" is different quantity depending on the country? I know in USA it's 10^9 but here in Spain it's 10^12. It's funny how sometimes this brings a lot of confusion. In several american nature TV programs, when dubbing into spanish, they seem not to realize the difference. In the end you hear things like the earth is 4 billion years old, thats older than the Big Bang and our universe itself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted November 26, 2002 Author Share Posted November 26, 2002 Holy cow! Shame on me! You are the man Miguel. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Z_S] Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 btw, does anyone know why a "billion" is different quantity depending on the country? I know in USA it's 10^9 but here in Spain it's 10^12.It's funny how sometimes this brings a lot of confusion. In several american nature TV programs, when dubbing into spanish, they seem not to realize the difference. In the end you hear things like the earth is 4 billion years old, thats older than the Big Bang and our universe itself! Hi! More confusion from Germany. In our country one billion has 12 zeros, like in spain. For example five-billions = 5.000.000.000.000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted December 10, 2002 Author Share Posted December 10, 2002 In Russia Billion is 10^9 and is called Milliard. And 10^12 is a Trillion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEO-oo- Posted December 11, 2002 Share Posted December 11, 2002 > In Russia Billion is 10^9 and is called Milliard. And 10^12 is a Trillion. In Germany: 10^6 is a Million 10^9 is a Milliarde 10^12 is a Billion 10^15 is a Trillion. I did the mistake a few years ago - I had an english press-release about a company - in the end in my story the company have make a a Billion bucks, but it was only a Milliarde (10^9) - big trouble LEO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted December 11, 2002 Share Posted December 11, 2002 "Billion" is "milliard" (literally in Dutch; "miljard") here. I guess it's part of the metric system. Such as using comma's instead of dots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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