Thread: help with installing SATA HDD
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Old 22-01-2007, 19:31   #14
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Re: help with installing SATA HDD
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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
Probably not. They kind of try the 1Gb = 1000Mb instead of 1024Mb trick which is why the 2 numbers never really add up. Plus you have the overheads of the formatting.
The upshot of that being that if Windows shows a different amount of space than the HDD manufacturer, Windows is always right.
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