256M SD card displays reduced capacity

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"MNQ" <corlioni1976REMOVE@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi All
>
> My 256 SD memory card displays 243MB of storage what happened to the rest
of
> the 13MB? Its being used in the IPAQ 2210. The card make is INTEGRAL

Knock off some for formatting, and some for marketing speak
(using 1,000 instead of 1,024) and you get your 243. There's nothing amiss.

HTH,

Flib

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Naveed,
Storage card makers show megabytes as 1000Kb when it's
actually 1024Kb(hard disk makers do this too. So the OS reads every megbtye
as 1024Kb which is why you only see 243 megs of it. The higher you go in
size the more you loose. I have a 512 MB sd card that shows I have only
483.21 MB of space on it.

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Eric Hicks [That_Kid] (MS-MVP Mobile Devices)

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"MNQ" <corlioni1976REMOVE@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:c5gcuo$lbc$1@rdel.co.uk...
> Hi All
>
> My 256 SD memory card displays 243MB of storage what happened to the rest
of
> the 13MB? Its being used in the IPAQ 2210. The card make is INTEGRAL
>
> Thanks
>
> Naveed
>
> --
> Mr Naveed Qayyum
>
> www.mnq.org.uk
>
>