160 gig drives
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just bought a 160 gig drive but when i put it in to format its coming up smaller, was going to put winxp on it but as soon as the disk had finished its setup it had the disk partition as 130gig i then put the drive as a 3rd drive and tried thru computer management but this time its showingas a 149gig hard drive is there any way i can get the full size formatted
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who has found this then, I bought a 60gb drive ages ago but when formated its only 55gb on NTFS. Never bothered trying to get 60gb from it, just thought I'd been ripped off but couldn't be ar$ed to do anything about it
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Steve
Have you updated your motherboard bios, may help it read large disks.
B2Z
When a drive is formatted for windows (FAT16/32 NTFS) you lose a percentage of the storage, iirc my 80gb WD's went to 74.6gb
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Have you updated your motherboard bios, may help it read large disks.
B2Z
When a drive is formatted for windows (FAT16/32 NTFS) you lose a percentage of the storage, iirc my 80gb WD's went to 74.6gb
Si
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Sounds about right. Its all marketing numbers. My '120Gb' drive only gives 111Gb real usable space. They work out 1Mb as being 1000Kb which of course it isn't.
[Edited by DJ Dunk - 1/13/2004 6:29:11 PM]
[Edited by DJ Dunk - 1/13/2004 6:29:11 PM]
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Cheers Mr.Cookie, thats what I considered at the time but then how do they get away with selling them as 60gb drives etc? Surely they should make them so that they are 60gb etc when formatted? I just expect to get what I buy from the description I read and when something turns out to be different its frustrating.
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As said above all hard drives are sold on the idea that 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte and 1000 kilo bytes = 1mega byte and so on. So as you can imagine when you eventially reach the gigabyte part of the equation there is a noteable difference.
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You need to check your BIOS/motherboard can deal with drives bigger than 137Gb. The standard LBA sector mapping does not work properly above this capacity. If you use a >137Gb drive on a system using standard LBA mode, you will loose data.
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may maxtor SATA drive was advertised as 160 gig. when formatted with NTFS i only got 152 gig or 163,913,347,020 bytes. that advertising for ya.
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big sinky
may maxtor SATA drive was advertised as 160 gig. when formatted with NTFS i only got 152 gig or 163,913,347,020 bytes. that advertising for ya.
cheers
big sinky
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Its not just that. The drives reserve a portion of their capacity for storing clean sectors (to replace bad sectors "on-the-fly" as they appear)
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When I bought a 200 gig drive for my PC (running XP) for Xbox backups it wouldn't show any larger than 137 gigs.
Tried it in a Window2k machine and it was fine, with slightly less than 200 gigs avilable. I had to load XP service pack in the end, then it showed as a 200 gig drive. Not much help, if your trying to load XP on a 200 gig H/D for a fresh install
Phill
PS I found the information on Microsoft website
Tried it in a Window2k machine and it was fine, with slightly less than 200 gigs avilable. I had to load XP service pack in the end, then it showed as a 200 gig drive. Not much help, if your trying to load XP on a 200 gig H/D for a fresh install
Phill
PS I found the information on Microsoft website
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Burr,
I did get an additional PCI IDE card, but didn't use it and re-installed XP on a smaller drive (120 gig), added SP 1a (i think) and it was the correct size, but as a slave. There is a fix for drive larger than 137 gigs on one of the service packs. Obviously you will need a autherised copy of XP Doesn't appear to be an issue with NT / WIN2K.
I think I'll add the PCI card now, as Xbox ISOs and MP3s are taking over my PC H/D space and I have a few more spare drives
Phill
I did get an additional PCI IDE card, but didn't use it and re-installed XP on a smaller drive (120 gig), added SP 1a (i think) and it was the correct size, but as a slave. There is a fix for drive larger than 137 gigs on one of the service packs. Obviously you will need a autherised copy of XP Doesn't appear to be an issue with NT / WIN2K.
I think I'll add the PCI card now, as Xbox ISOs and MP3s are taking over my PC H/D space and I have a few more spare drives
Phill
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Be aware when using XP sp1, that HD > 137GB need a patch otherwise your disc gets corrupted!! I had to rebuild my pc 7 times before I found this patch!!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;331958
Regards,
Ian
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;331958
Regards,
Ian
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