[snip]

bah.. unfamiliar with low level factory formatting I see.. (which really is
irrelevant to the disk size issue, they simply use a different definition of
a megabyte, manufacturers define it at 1,000,000 bytes, while the os works
only in numbers divisible by 8, starting at the kilobyte)

It's powers of 2 (1 kilobyte = 1024 = 2^10). 8 = 2^3, just one of
those powers.

maybe this will help with the formatting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_lev..._of_formatting

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