Heads x cylinders x sectors (usually 17 in the old HDs) x 512 (the number of
bytes per sector)= disk space in bytes
Then you convert that to megabytes :-)
Regards
Harsha Godavari
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> I know there's an equation, but I don't know it! How to calculate disk
> space from cylinders and heads?
> Got a laptop, toshiba 1300 I think, and a friend is determined to make it
> work for writing on. only reports the cylinders, 612, and the heads, 2, so
> don't know it's size!
> Only thing on it is command.com but as the drive only uses double density
> 1.2MB disks, we've got to find some before loading anythng on the drive.
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