Tim Busche writes:

> Okay...let me try this one...
>
>  1 sector = 256 bytes
>  1 GB = 1,024,000,000 bytes
>
>  So,
>          1,024,000,000 / 256 = 4,000,000
>
>  1 GB = 4,000,000 sectors
>
>  Corrections welcome.

Close, but not quite accurate. 1 GB isn't technically 1,024,000,000 bytes (or
even 1,000,000,000 bytes). It's actually 1,073,741,824.00, which is perhaps
most easily represented as 2^30.

1,073,741,824.00 divided by 256 = 4,194,304.

Wirt Atmar