HardDrive

[johnboy27]

my "specs" when I bought the Computer stated 160 so... you think If there was anything I needed to do the manufactorers would have already done since the HDD came with the Computer

edit: wow okay, I never read that far... thats pretty gay though.. oh well 143 is plenty large for me I think

It doesn't matter what the specs say.The drive was said to be 160 gb by the manufacturer of the drive.When windows formats a drive it formats it with 1024 kb per mb and 1024 mb per gb. The manufacturer counts 1000 kb as a mb and 1000 mb as one gb. Also,is your PC a Dell,Compaq,IBM etc? If it is then there is likely a hidden partition holding your software that came on the PC.

[Samurai]

Hes seeing 143 though

Its just how these damn hds work. On my 160, im only getting 149. On my 200, im getting 186. Its cause windows doesnt measure them the same as the manufacturer.

EDIT: Hmm... I was messing around with the calculator and I notice that on mine, I get 93% of what they are supposed to be.

My 200GB = 186.31GB
My 160GB = 152.66GB


Damn them! Damn them all to hellllllll!

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[SingaBoiy]

Oh and on one of my 8 GB, I only get 7.44 GB.

[tesco]

Oh and on one of my 8 GB, I only get 7.44 GB.

Same with the drive that came with my old computer.

[lynx]

I was told mine would be 8 inches, but it is only 19cm. Damn conversion factors.







Oops, sorry, wrong forum.

[Virtualbody1234]

19cm?

Maybe that turns out just to be 15cm, like the HDD companies count it.