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Gordon Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>
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Gordon Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:15:23 -0600
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In article <[log in to unmask]>, Joe Amuquandoh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Got a lot of quick responses
>Thanks to you all.
>
>Hi all,
>Does anybody have a quick formula for converting gigabytes to sectors and
>vice-versa?
>

Well, since there are 256 bytes per sector, and a gigabyte is 2^30 bytes
( 1,073,741,824 bytes ) there are 4,194,304 sectors per gigabyte.  So
number of sectors/4194304 should give gigabytes.  And gigabytes x 4194304
should give number of sectors.

I think......



Gordon Montgomery
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