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jraju:
Hi, Please see this link
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,2828.msg19452.html#msg19452

Julian:
Easy way I can think of is windows uses base 2 file size count.

If windows was to switch over to base 10 file size count you would see a bigger size usb.

so if windows had base 10 file size instead of base 2
you would download a file thats 230 mb from the internet and when you look at it on your usb it  would show up as 250mb instead. kinda weird eh?

Base 2= binary (0 and 1)
Base 10= decimal (0-9)
Base 16= hexidecimal (0-9 A-F)

Boggin:
Windows use hexadecimal because the memory addresses are so large.

When I created a bootable USB using Windows USB/DVD Burner Tool, I was prompted to format it first to NTFS, but I noticed in the link JR has posted that Diskpart formats it to FAT32.

jraju:
Hi,  Boggins,
It will format automatically to NTFS. That is what i know of . But there was no problem. The tool is entirely different.
                   here we do not use any tool , but some cmd commands and total copy. Whereas usb dvd is set tool for this purpose.

Gamezertruth:

--- Quote from: Julian on July 06, 2015, 11:33:06 pm ---Easy way I can think of is windows uses base 2 file size count.

If windows was to switch over to base 10 file size count you would see a bigger size usb.

so if windows had base 10 file size instead of base 2
you would download a file thats 230 mb from the internet and when you look at it on your usb it  would show up as 250mb instead. kinda weird eh?

Base 2= binary (0 and 1)
Base 10= decimal (0-9)
Base 16= hexidecimal (0-9 A-F)

--- End quote ---

yeah this wired and I hop there is no hiding adware/malware into my USB flash drive  :cheesy: that will using that space like laptops vendor already do that into it

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