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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: nymph4 on January 13, 2011, 10:23:20 AM
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I have Match speed trio 5000 and got a Micro SDHC card for it and it is 16 BG
Wen I insert the card and format it it formats it in fat 32 and nothing els I have win xp pro.
Wen it formats the card I go to properties and the capacity of the card says
14.8 GB
Why not 16 GB it just was formated?
Were is my 2 other GB?
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you've already had this explained to you.
the 16GB on the box of a Hard drive or flash drive refers to a GB as 1000MB. The computer works in binary so a GB is really 1024MB, which is 1024KB, which is 1024 bytes.
so your 16GB drive is 16,000,000,000 bytes, which is 16,000,000,000/1024=15,625,000 Kilobytes, which is 15,258.7 MB, which is 14.8 GB.
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Use Windows Disk Manager.
control panel > administrative tools >Computer Management >Disk Management
http://geek9pm.com/jpg/Disk-Manager.jpg
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you've already had this explained to you.
the 16GB on the box of a Hard drive or flash drive refers to a GB as 1000MB. The computer works in binary so a GB is really 1024MB, which is 1024KB, which is 1024 bytes.
so your 16GB drive is 16,000,000,000 bytes, which is 16,000,000,000/1024=15,625,000 Kilobytes, which is 15,258.7 MB, which is 14.8 GB.
HUH?
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HUH?
16GB on a box is using standard Metric amounts- 1000 as opposed to 1024. Therefore the actual size as seen by the computer will be different.
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16GB on a box is using standard Metric amounts- 1000 as opposed to 1024. Therefore the actual size as seen by the computer will be different.
I think it was this part where the confusion was: "...which is 16,000,000,000/1024=15,625,000 Kilobytes, which is 15,258.7 MB, which is 14.8 GB."