I got a new hard drive today.

thedoors27 · 05-20-2005, 12:42 AM

Hi there today I installed a new hard drive into my computer a 250gb hard drive.

It shows it saying it has 233 gb which is ok, but is there any way of increasing it? The manual said something about a tips and tricks section but it didn't have one!

elmarcorulz · 05-20-2005, 12:52 AM

well i have a 80GB hd and i can only use 74, so i dont think youll be able to get any more out of it, but someone else on here may know a way

thedoors27 · 05-20-2005, 01:37 AM

Also when I right click a file and choose send to, should the new hard drive (F) be there?

ripken2004 · 05-20-2005, 01:51 AM

hard drives usually show less gb's than they rly are

elmarcorulz · 05-20-2005, 02:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedoors27

Also when I right click a file and choose send to, should the new hard drive (F) be there?

no it shouldnt, but you can add it manually

nevinenigma · 05-20-2005, 02:28 AM

"hard drives usually show less gb's than they rly are"
close, Hard drives usually advertise more gb's than they really are. Explaination:

Hard drives are sold and marketed using decimal gigabytes. That is, a “GB” consists of 1,000,000,000 bytes.
However, computers interpret gigabytes in binary. To a computer, 1 GB = 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes.
The ratio of “actual” to “marketed” file size is the ratio of these two interpretations, or roughly 0.9313225.
Therefore an X-sized (marketed) drive actually has 0.9313225*X of space usable to a computer.

250 X 0.9313225=roughly 233gb

M0ddingMan1a · 05-20-2005, 06:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedoors27

Hi there today I installed a new hard drive into my computer a 250gb hard drive.

It shows it saying it has 233 gb which is ok, but is there any way of increasing it? The manual said something about a tips and tricks section but it didn't have one!

OMG!!!!!! i had the same problem with MY 250gig. ahha, but turns out it only lost about 18gigs. showing as a 232. so i guess thats around the right ammount. since my 80 gig looses like 6 gigs, and this is about 3 times that, i guess its decent enough. but yea, is there a way to reduce the ammount that is taken off?

elmarcorulz · 05-20-2005, 11:28 AM

no i dont think there is, as nevinenigma said, its to do witih the way companys label up the size

MaGic · 05-20-2005, 01:40 PM

You're probably using windows, that's why it is 233GB instead of 250GB. Windows caculate using multiples of 1024, instead of 1000, which is commonly used by most computer hardware manufacturers.

Your new hard drive is probably registered as having an actual size of close to 250,000,000,000 bytes. But a quick calculation will show that, by using multiples of 1024, you will get a size of 233GB as seen by windows:

2.5 x 10^11
------------ = approx. 233GB
1024^3

**Praetor** · 05-21-2005, 04:01 PM

Quote:

You're probably using windows, that's why it is 233GB instead of 250GB. Windows caculate using multiples of 1024, instead of 1000, which is commonly used by most computer hardware manufacturers.

The OS doesnt matter.

05-20-2005, 12:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
thedoors27 Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 103	I got a new hard drive today. (right click send to) Hi there today I installed a new hard drive into my computer a 250gb hard drive. It shows it saying it has 233 gb which is ok, but is there any way of increasing it? The manual said something about a tips and tricks section but it didn't have one! Last edited by thedoors27; 05-20-2005 at 01:37 AM.

05-20-2005, 12:52 AM	#2 (permalink)
elmarcorulz VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK Age: 22 Posts: 6,033	well i have a 80GB hd and i can only use 74, so i dont think youll be able to get any more out of it, but someone else on here may know a way __________________ C2D E6300 @ 2.6Ghz Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 2GB DDR2 667 1TB (1x500GB 2x250GB HDD) BFG 8800GTS 320MB PFC Til I Die

05-20-2005, 02:28 AM	#6 (permalink)
nevinenigma Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 119	"hard drives usually show less gb's than they rly are" close, Hard drives usually advertise more gb's than they really are. Explaination: Hard drives are sold and marketed using decimal gigabytes. That is, a “GB” consists of 1,000,000,000 bytes. However, computers interpret gigabytes in binary. To a computer, 1 GB = 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. The ratio of “actual” to “marketed” file size is the ratio of these two interpretations, or roughly 0.9313225. Therefore an X-sized (marketed) drive actually has 0.9313225*X of space usable to a computer. 250 X 0.9313225=roughly 233gb __________________ Athlon 64 2800+ 1024mb pc3200 80gb 7200rpm Asus k8n XFX 6600GT

05-20-2005, 11:28 AM	#8 (permalink)
elmarcorulz VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK Age: 22 Posts: 6,033	no i dont think there is, as nevinenigma said, its to do witih the way companys label up the size __________________ C2D E6300 @ 2.6Ghz Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 2GB DDR2 667 1TB (1x500GB 2x250GB HDD) BFG 8800GTS 320MB PFC Til I Die

05-20-2005, 01:40 PM	#9 (permalink)
MaGic New Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 15	You're probably using windows, that's why it is 233GB instead of 250GB. Windows caculate using multiples of 1024, instead of 1000, which is commonly used by most computer hardware manufacturers. Your new hard drive is probably registered as having an actual size of close to 250,000,000,000 bytes. But a quick calculation will show that, by using multiples of 1024, you will get a size of 233GB as seen by windows: 2.5 x 10^11 ------------ = approx. 233GB 1024^3 __________________ - Processor - Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.53 GHz - Motherboard - ASUS P4PE - Graphic Card - GeForce 6600GT 128MB - RAM - 1GB DDR333 PC2700 - Sound Card - Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS - Speakers - Logitech Z-2300 2.1 THX - DVD Writer - Pioneer 107D 8x - DVD-ROM - BenQ 16x - Monitor - LG Flatron 15" LCD - HDD - 80GB PATA 7200 rpm 2MB Cache

05-20-2005, 01:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
thedoors27 Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 103	Also when I right click a file and choose send to, should the new hard drive (F) be there?

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