[dba-Tech] USB Memory stick lost space!

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Mar 26 18:11:05 CDT 2010


There's "GB" and there's "GB" depending on who you ask.

Disk manufacturers always use 1000^3 (a gigabyte by definition) when calculating GB, 

Windows uses 1024^3 (technically a gibibyte). 

Your manufacturer's 16 GB is only equivalent to 15 of Microsoft's


See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte for all the gory details.

-- 
Stuart


On 26 Mar 2010 at 2:30, John Bartow wrote:

> My 16 GB Centon USB Memory Stick lost all of its data today.
>  
> I Used the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to reformat it an dit appeared to
> work but now I have only 15 GB of space available.
>  
> Any ideas?
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