Aug 13, 2011, 02:27 PM
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Windows shows incorrect gb's
So i repartitioned my hard drive today to give windows more room on the HDD. It looked fine on the mac partition reading mac= 285gb and windows=214gb. When i reboot to windows it says that i have mac=265gb and windows=199 gb. whats up with that and what is the actual amount of gb's on my hdd. could i have lost space by repartitioning?
thanks for the help 
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Aug 13, 2011, 02:33 PM
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I think thats the standard formatting lost experienced by every operating system. Does your MacHD when right clicking and saying Get Info show the same amount of space that Windows shows?
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Aug 13, 2011, 02:36 PM
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no, my mac shows 285 and 214 my windows shows 199 and 265
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Aug 13, 2011, 03:43 PM
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Windows uses 1 GiB = 2^30, while newer OS X go for 1 GB = 10^9.
That's why the numbers are off by a factor of 1.073741824...
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Aug 13, 2011, 09:43 PM
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Quote:
1.073741824 = (1.024*1.024*1.024) B
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