Formatted Size of HD

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While putting together a home theater pc, I bought a Samsung 160 gig
hard drive. When I installed it and did the format, the formatted size
came to 131 gigs! WTF?!
I know that the formatted size of a hd is smaller than the
advertised size - my two 80 gigs come to 74.5 after formatting. I
expected some size 'loss', but not damn near 20%!
I bought the Samsung because it was a little less than the Western
Digital or Maxtor - was I penny wise and pound foolish? Does anyone
have a 160 gig WD, Maxtor, or Samsung and what does your drive format
out to?
And the drive works just fine, so I wouldn't think that its bad... I
dunno, I figured the drive would format to 147 gigs or so, but,
dayumn!

Thanks!

 

[Shep©]

While putting together a home theater pc, I bought a Samsung 160 gig
hard drive. When I installed it and did the format, the formatted size
came to 131 gigs! WTF?!
I know that the formatted size of a hd is smaller than the
advertised size - my two 80 gigs come to 74.5 after formatting. I
expected some size 'loss', but not damn near 20%!
I bought the Samsung because it was a little less than the Western
Digital or Maxtor - was I penny wise and pound foolish? Does anyone
have a 160 gig WD, Maxtor, or Samsung and what does your drive format
out to?
And the drive works just fine, so I wouldn't think that its bad... I
dunno, I figured the drive would format to 147 gigs or so, but,
dayumn!

Thanks!

1oes your mother board/BIOS support drives >137 gig?

2:What operating system and file system did you partition and format
the drive to?

3oes the drive have a drive size limiting jumper setting?




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[DaveW]

Your motherboard's BIOS is limiting you to 137 GB's of harddrive space. You
need to flash your BIOS with it's latest version from your motherboard
manufacturer's WWW site.

 

[Shep©]

Your motherboard's BIOS is limiting you to 137 GB's of harddrive space. You
need to flash your BIOS with it's latest version from your motherboard
manufacturer's WWW site.

There's no guarantee that a BIOS upgrade can cure it though :/



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[S.Heenan]

While putting together a home theater pc, I bought a Samsung 160 gig
hard drive. When I installed it and did the format, the formatted size
came to 131 gigs! WTF?!
I know that the formatted size of a hd is smaller than the
advertised size - my two 80 gigs come to 74.5 after formatting. I
expected some size 'loss', but not damn near 20%!
I bought the Samsung because it was a little less than the Western
Digital or Maxtor - was I penny wise and pound foolish? Does anyone
have a 160 gig WD, Maxtor, or Samsung and what does your drive format
out to?
And the drive works just fine, so I wouldn't think that its bad... I
dunno, I figured the drive would format to 147 gigs or so, but,
dayumn!

Thanks!

If you're using Windows XP, you will need SP1 in addition to a motherboard
BIOS which supports 48 bit LBA. If no BIOS exists, simply purchase and
install a Promise or High Point IDE controller card.

 

[Conor Turton]

While putting together a home theater pc, I bought a Samsung 160 gig
hard drive. When I installed it and did the format, the formatted size
came to 131 gigs! WTF?!
I know that the formatted size of a hd is smaller than the
advertised size - my two 80 gigs come to 74.5 after formatting. I
expected some size 'loss', but not damn near 20%!
I bought the Samsung because it was a little less than the Western
Digital or Maxtor - was I penny wise and pound foolish? Does anyone
have a 160 gig WD, Maxtor, or Samsung and what does your drive format
out to?
And the drive works just fine, so I wouldn't think that its bad... I
dunno, I figured the drive would format to 147 gigs or so, but,
dayumn!

Thanks!

You need:

BIOS update + Windows XP with SP1/SP1a built in for the install.