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Maxtor 6L060J3 and XP size reporting
Never mind. I finally found the answer my self. I guess Maxtor see's 1GB as 1,000,000,000 and Windows counts a GB in binary which is 1,073,741,824. Which comes out to around 55.87 which is right. Thanks, MIchelle- jimnme
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Maxtor 6L060J3 and XP size reporting
I have a Moxtor 6L060J3 hard drive and I'm running Windows XP home. It's supposed to be a 60GB but when I look at the drive properties in XP it shows as: Capacity 60,036,284,415 55.9GB Am I missing something. Are the XP files using this much space....4.1GB??? I have looked in my bios and...- jimnme
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