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Differences in Partition Size Between Disk Management & Windows Explorer ....why?
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<blockquote data-quote="cranky" data-source="post: 1780929" data-attributes="member: 9160"><p>First, understand that Windows does a lot of rounding to arrive at the final size tally as it only displays two decimal places. Actual partition sizes are in blocks and sectors, the 'bytes' and higher figures you see are approximations.</p><p></p><p>Also, only when the sector size and partition size tally perfectly, will you have a partition size that every program will agree on the size because Explorer reads the space attributes (bytes) whereas partition managers read the partition data.</p><p></p><p>IOW, what you see is normal and not worth losing sleep over. If you want exactitude, use multiples of 1024 when formatting (10GB = 1024000MB) and carry over balance to the last partition. That was what I used to do when partitioning a drive, which I do not really do anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cranky, post: 1780929, member: 9160"] First, understand that Windows does a lot of rounding to arrive at the final size tally as it only displays two decimal places. Actual partition sizes are in blocks and sectors, the 'bytes' and higher figures you see are approximations. Also, only when the sector size and partition size tally perfectly, will you have a partition size that every program will agree on the size because Explorer reads the space attributes (bytes) whereas partition managers read the partition data. IOW, what you see is normal and not worth losing sleep over. If you want exactitude, use multiples of 1024 when formatting (10GB = 1024000MB) and carry over balance to the last partition. That was what I used to do when partitioning a drive, which I do not really do anymore. [/QUOTE]
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