Disk size reported incorrectly

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I have just installed a 200 Gb Samsung HDD as Slave. The bios sees it ok as
2oo gb but checking the general tab in properties for the new drive tells me
Capacity is 200 Gb but free space is 186 Gb.
I have formatted to ntfs Basic disk and have put no data on it yet.
So I am losing 14 Gb. Is this a common w2k problem & if so is there anything
I can do to retrieve the lost space?
Thanks in advance
Dougpw
 
I have just installed a 200 Gb Samsung HDD as Slave. The bios sees it ok as
2oo gb but checking the general tab in properties for the new drive tells me
Capacity is 200 Gb but free space is 186 Gb.
I have formatted to ntfs Basic disk and have put no data on it yet.
So I am losing 14 Gb. Is this a common w2k problem & if so is there anything
I can do to retrieve the lost space?
Thanks in advance
Dougpw
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You cannot format a drive and expect to lose nothing. Some data has to be given
up to the format which after all is there to keep your programs in places where
the mere name can find them. I have exactly the same here - do not worry.

Borge in Perth, Australia
 
Dougpw said:
I have just installed a 200 Gb Samsung HDD as Slave. The bios sees it ok as
2oo gb but checking the general tab in properties for the new drive tells me
Capacity is 200 Gb but free space is 186 Gb.
I have formatted to ntfs Basic disk and have put no data on it yet.
So I am losing 14 Gb. Is this a common w2k problem & if so is there anything
I can do to retrieve the lost space?
Thanks in advance
Dougpw
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It's not a problem and you haven't lost anything - it all
depends on your definition of a Gigabyte. Some people
say that it is 1,000,000,000 bytes, which sounds fair and
reasonable. Others say that it is 1024x1024x1024 bytes.
Windows uses the latter measure. Get out your calculator
and do this:

capaciy=1024x1024x1024x186

See what I mean?
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
It's not a problem and you haven't lost anything - it all
depends on your definition of a Gigabyte. Some people
say that it is 1,000,000,000 bytes, which sounds fair and
reasonable. Others say that it is 1024x1024x1024 bytes.
Windows uses the latter measure. Get out your calculator
and do this:

capaciy=1024x1024x1024x186

See what I mean?


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Pegasus (MVP) said:
It's not a problem and you haven't lost anything - it all
depends on your definition of a Gigabyte. Some people
say that it is 1,000,000,000 bytes, which sounds fair and
reasonable. Others say that it is 1024x1024x1024 bytes.
Windows uses the latter measure. Get out your calculator
and do this:

capaciy=1024x1024x1024x186

See what I mean?


Yeah I do . That explains why my 80 Gb drive reports as 74 GB .
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So does that mean the manufacturer is calculating a Gb as 1,000,000,000
bytes and windows calculates at 1024 etc
 
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