You should also note that hard drive manufactures tend to lie some what regarding disk capacity numbers but only technically. What I mean is for example my external 320 MB drive does offer 320,000,000 MB of space using the base 10 system of mathematics. Computers on the other side of that coin use the base 2 system as in zeros and ones. So using that criteria that particular drive is only a 298 GB model. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com VIP Conduit Tech Support www.vipconduit.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] XP and hard drive size
Maria, Thanks for the suggestion but , this is the amount even before I partitioned it. Once partitioned and OS installed it reads even less. I may call Tiger Direct to see what's up Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Maria Campbell Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] XP and hard drive size Could it be that it's only showing you free space and not counting the amount used by the operating system? Sunny Day Maria Campbell [email protected] A GEM IS NOT POLISHED WITHOUT RUBBING, NOR A MAN PERFECTED WITHOUT TRIALS. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[email protected]> To: "Blind-Computing" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:49 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] XP and hard drive size >I just purchased a new 750 GB hard drive from Tiger Direct. > However, I notice Win XP Pro is only recognizing it as 699 > GB. Does XP have a limit on the size a hard drive can be? > > thanks > Al > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
