overcoming the 300 gigabyte limit

Ralph Wade Phillips,

This is the hard drive that I have
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Do you think that what have said to me applies to this hard drive? Can you
explain why certain external cases have to place a stated limit of 300 gigs
as it limit? I do not understand that.



Lex



"Ralph Wade Phillips" <ralphp.DeleteThis@techie.com> wrote in message
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 > Howdy!
 >
 > "||" <sl.DeleteThis@npspam.com> wrote in message
 > news:vKXKd.72458$ld2.25411855@twister.nyc.rr.com...
  > > I have a StorTecc pm-525c2-eps external hard drive case. I have a 320
  > > gigabyte hard drive embedded. Why does this external case limit the
 > amount
  > > of hard drive space available to 300 gigabytes?
 >
 > It doesn't.
 >
 > You're looking at the variance between binary measures and decimal
 > measures.
 >
 > 320 * 1,000 * 1,000 * 1,000 = 320,000,000,000 bytes.
 >
 > Now, 298 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 319,975,063,552 bytes.
 >
 > So, 298G in binary = 320G in decimal.
 >
  > >
  > >
  > >
  > > Is their a way for me to over come this limitation? Can someone explain
 > why
  > > this external case has such a strange limitation? Does Windows 2000
have
  > > some limit in hard drive space that I am not aware of? I did modify the
  > > registry for the 130 gigabytes issue they had.
 >
 > And THAT was a 128G or 137G limit - depending on binary (where the
 > problem is) or decimal.
 >
 > RwP
 >
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