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MB/GB? - Posted By Nick (nickb) on 21st Apr 08 at 10:07pm
How many MB's are in a GB? I have been wandering this for awhile now, is it like 980MB in a GB?
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Michael (wrighty) on 21st Apr 08 at 10:38pm
no it's 1024.

1024 KB =1 MB
1024 MB = 1 GB! {Smile}

Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Nick (nickb) on 21st Apr 08 at 10:53pm
so what is it for 5,369MB? On my MP3 player, its 1GB and it says I have 131MB left. So I put it all on my laptop, it was at 99.5 GB after I got all my programs installed, and all the programs that I will not use like napster, google desktop, etc. now that I put all my songs on it now shows 83.5GB, yeh I know it is still allot, but how can I reduce the file size of the songs?
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Michael (wrighty) on 21st Apr 08 at 11:16pm
about 5 GB.

And to be honest, the capacity measures are never accurate! {Tongue Out}
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Nick (nickb) on 21st Apr 08 at 11:50pm
Ive noticed that on the box it shows 120 GB of hard drive, but on the computer it shows 110GB max.
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Michael (wrighty) on 22nd Apr 08 at 4:13pm
All companies are allowed a 10% leaway either side. So it could go down as low as 108GB
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Nick (nickb) on 22nd Apr 08 at 7:32pm
ahh ok, Ive noticed something weird too, I am keeping a close eye on it too. I had 88.9 GB left, then I turned my laptop on this morning, and it said I have 60.5 GB left, and as soon as I get home in an hour from school, I will also be checking up on it to see were it is at. Its strange because in the add/remove area said that all the programs combined are 2.17 GB total, and then I have over 120 songs on my computer, and it showed after I moved the music files from my MP3 Player to my laptop and it showed I had 88.9 GB left. What do you think could be causing it?

(As you can tell I am paying more attention to my laptop more then my desktop, that is my moms.)
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By tricky.cb (crazyblue) on 22nd Apr 08 at 11:56pm
Could be temporary internet files, and other just random junk files. I have over 30 gigs of those types of files on my pc.. it's really stupid.
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Nick (nickb) on 23rd Apr 08 at 3:59am
oh ok I see. And for some reason in Windows Media Player 11, the songs skip like a cd and they were copied from an MP3 player, so I do not know why its doing that. I even turned off the EQ and it still does it. Normally I would have it set to Rock, but it was skipping allot using that, so I went to normal did not change So I turned it off. But last night it was working well.

I know why I had set the battery power to save energy, and lowered the performance, I now have it balanced out so it now sounds good.
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By ashkir (ashkir) on 26th Apr 08 at 12:48am
Want to know a secret?

Use Google!

1 GB / 1 MB

It tells you the answer. :]



Also keep in mind, over time part of your hardrive can "die" which is why they recommend backups and new computers every so often. Small parts of your Harddrive dies, memory goes down, but the computer usually can retrieve that data. Defraging your computer makes sure your data is always in a safe place.
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Nick (nickb) on 26th Apr 08 at 7:34pm
<_< Wow late reply >_> you should read all the posts before you comments. Would help you later on {Rolleyes}
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Marc (cr0w) on 26th Apr 08 at 10:53pm
Posted By Nick on 26th Apr 08 at 7:34pm
 
<_< Wow late reply >_> you should read all the posts before you comments. Would help you later on {Rolleyes}


He was simply giving you a piece of advice on how to find similar answers faster in the future. The rules do say that old threads may be bumped provided the person is giving helpful input. {Wink}
Re: MB/GB? - Posted By Nick (nickb) on 27th Apr 08 at 4:19am
I know, I always use Google, buuuuut I was already on the forum, and did not feel like typing in google, and typing my question in {Tongue Out} ^_^