Is it possible to change win10 interpretation of KB (1024) To the actual 1000?

[Klohver]

Just wondering if its possible to change how windows interprets a size. 1024 is actually a kibibyte and not a kilobyte as advertised, and I'm wondering if I can some how edit the OS to read it in actual kilobytes.

 

[USAFRet]

Just wondering if its possible to change how windows interprets a size. 1024 is actually a kibibyte and not a kilobyte as advertised, and I'm wondering if I can some how edit the OS to read it in actual kilobytes.

No you cannot.

 

[Klohver]

Is there a reason I cant?

 

[Klohver]

I guess I just want to know if its theoretically possible to do given enough time to edit the entire os.

 

[USAFRet]

Is there a reason I cant?

There is no 'setting' for that. You'd have to decompile the entire OS and rewrite it.

And the 'actual 1000' is false. It is the same drive. You're not losing any space.

 

[Klohver]

I already know that. 1000 bytes is a kilobyte 1024 is a kibibyte. I just want windows to calculate everything in actual kilobytes. Obviously that doesn't change the actual physical amount of space on a drive, just how it is measured.

 

[cemerian]

Because your pc hardware and os uses binary system and not decimal, humans use decimal to round up storage spaces,but they are thee same, after all its easyer to say 500GB than 465GB that you will see in actual os envirioment

 

[USAFRet]

I guess I just want to know if its theoretically possible to do given enough time to edit the entire os.

Theoretically, if you're going to rewrite the OS?
Sure. But you can't do that.

 

[Klohver]

I just like thinking of kilo as 1000 and not as 1024. mega as 1000*1000 and giga as 1000*1000*1000. Its just way easier to calculate and much simpler to understand

 

[Klohver]

I think Im just going to switch to Linux.

 

[USAFRet]

I think Im just going to switch to Linux.

Well, that's awfully drastic.

 

[Colif]

I wish HDD makers made them to the right number instead, wouldn't lose any space formatting the drives then.. tho most of the "space" we lose now doesn't actually exist. Same with ram I guess,

 

[USAFRet]

I wish HDD makers made them to the right number instead, wouldn't lose any space formatting the drives then.. tho most of the "space" we lose now doesn't actually exist. Same with ram I guess,

I wish the HDD advertising dept would use the correct number.

 

[Colif]

The problem only gets more obvious as drives get bigger. Currently we just losing 100's of gb of advertised space, the drives aren't getting any smaller. Eventually it will be tb of space missing. Who is going to sue them for all this wasted money?

 

[13thmonkey]

They'll make them to whatever capacity they can fit in a form factor given the technology that they have, as pointed out the issue is with the marketing depts.

 

[USAFRet]

The problem only gets more obvious as drives get bigger. Currently we just losing 100's of gb of advertised space, the drives aren't getting any smaller. Eventually it will be tb of space missing. Who is going to sue them for all this wasted money?

What wasted money? The drive isn't any smaller. There is nothing 'missing'.
An advertised 1TB drive is 931GB. Just reading 2 different units. Base 10 vs base 2.

You have 'lost' nothing.

 

[Colif]

I know. the variation has been there for years. I was just having some fun.

 

[13thmonkey]

Who is going to sue them for all this wasted money?

An idiot who doesn't understand that there is no missing space.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

They already were sued, and lost. That's why there's now a note on every HDD box that "1GB = 1000000000 bytes".

Blame MS beyond that.