Hi Sahil, On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Sahil ModGill <scorpionking.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I want some inputs, please help me in this. > > I want to install Windows7 (which I don't want but for some work I have to > do it unfortunately) on my external HDD (Seagate, 1TB) mounted as /dev/sdc1 > (FileSystem: NTFS) on my base OS (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). > > # Doubt 1: Total size of my HDD is showing in GParted is 931.51GB, I am > fascinate where is the rest space?
Hard disk vendors count the disk space in terms of powers of 10. 10^3 bytes = 1 KB, 10^3 KB = 1 MB, 10^3 MB = 1 GB, 10^3 GB = 1 TB. But computers and operating systems see the same storage in terms of 2^10 bytes. 2^10 bytes = 1 KiB, 2^10 KiB = 1 MiB, 2^10 MiB = 1 GiB, 2^10 GiB = 1 TiB. So after applying these conversions, it comes to approximately 931.3 GB which is what GParted shows correctly. Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte and the table in the page for more details. Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
