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

[Ken Johnson]

But that won't actually add capacity, it will just change the  
reporting. As I understand it, the issue isn't how many bytes of  
storage you actually have, it is how many GigaBytes are being reported.

Ken

On Jun 24, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Michael Elliott <michaelelliott at me.com>  
wrote:

> 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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> Sent from my iPhone...so replies might be short, and sometimes  
> "autocorrected" into gibberish.
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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
>>>
>>>
>>> iMac Intel 2.0 ghz
>>> 1 gig Ram, 160 GB HD
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>>>
>>>
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