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Windows XP's Disk Management window, showing the partitions on a Seagate external USB hard drive ("Disk 1"). Windows XP uses SI prefixes in a binary sense to report sizes. The drive can hold 160 GB (160,041,885,696 bytes), and is presented by Windows as "149.05 GB". In this case, "GB" means 1,073,741,824 (2³⁰) bytes.

This image is really cluttered because of all the partitions, so it should probably be replaced by something more succinct eventually.

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Created by User:Omegatron using the GIMP

Date

2007-04-12

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User:Omegatron

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All of these images are derived from the same physical hard drive:

Gnome's partition editor with "149.05 GiB"

Linux's fdisk with "160.0 GB"

[edit] Fair use in Binary prefix

This screenshot succinctly shows the seemingly inconsistent decimal and binary measurements of hard disk capacity.
This image shows the problem with an actual dialog screen that a non-technical reader has likely seen.
This image supports a major topic in the Binary prefix article.
Using this utilitarian dialog does not deprive the copyright holder, Microsoft, of any revenue or sales.
The dialog is similar to the thousands of dialogs the software industry has created using the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) toolkit for tabbed dialogs. Microsoft allows reuse with no copyright restrictions on the resulting dialogs and programs.
This use also meets most of the criteria on Use of Microsoft Copyrighted Content, which grants permission to use screenshots in documents or websites.