[X4U] External HD: 750 gig to 699 when formatted. Why???

[Michael Elliott]

This is actually being addressed in the next release of OS X Snow  
Leopard. The reconing will change from base 2 to base 10.

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On Jun 11, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Jens Selvig <lstnmt at bresnan.net> wrote:

> You have been bitten by 'marketing speak' used by most if not all of  
> the hard drive manufacturers. They report the size of the drives  
> using 1 gig to mean 1000 megabytes while the computer looks at 1 gig  
> as 1024 megabytes. So much of the problem comes in converting from  
> base 2 to base 10.
>
> Plus there is a fairly large amount of 'house keeping' space used up  
> on the drive to account for the difference in size. :)
>
> Jens
>
>
> On May 24, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Germain M. wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I bought a SimpleTech 750gig external HD. It was Windows formatted  
>> in the first place. Once mounted, info window showed the drive had  
>> 699 gig free. As suggested in the instruction manual (and as should  
>> be done) anyway), I reformated the drive Mac OS Extended journaled.  
>> Still 699 gig free. Is there a way te recover this huge amount of  
>> lost gig? What are they used for and by what (whom)? Are there some  
>> hidden Windows programs and files left on the HD. If so, how to et  
>> rid of them to recover that space?
>>
>> First, I wanted to format the drivve with the "zero" option in Disk  
>> Utility but it told me ot would take 7 hours and I didn't want to  
>> wait. This is the very first external HD I buy.
>>
>> Thanks a lot. Germain
>>
>>
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>>
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