How is the capacity of a harddisk faked?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/270194/h...

Question links:
[magical Chinese drives]: http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-m...

Accepted answer links:
[FAT32]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Alloca...

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