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? > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com