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galerecon

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Hey guys, I just put in my Windows 8 operating system disk into the DVD drive. But I don't know why, but it is so loud! Is it supposed to be like that on first use or something? Also, my 256GB SSD only shows 238.5gb and my 2tb HD only shows 1863GB is that supposed to be like that as well?
 
galerecon said:
Hey guys, I just put in my Windows 8 operating system disk into the DVD drive. But I don't know why, but it is so loud! Is it supposed to be like that on first use or something? Also, my 256GB SSD only shows 238.5gb and my 2tb HD only shows 1863GB is that supposed to be like that as well?
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Right, firstly, I wouldn't worry if your DVD drive makes a lot of noise, when Windows Setup loads, many files are being read at once, so it is just the DVD Drive spinning faster. My old CD-R drive sounds like a chainsaw when it loads XP setup.

Secondly, the number change you are experiencing can be down to two things, firstly, you may have other partitions which are used when the machine boots which take up a couple of hundred Megabytes, and if you have a OEM recovery partition, then this will be taken off too.
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Notice the 200MB "System" Partition? You can remove this partition, as windows rewrites it anyway.

The other reason is that you get megabytes and megabits. Now it is a fact that Windows reads in Megabits and Gigabits instead of Megabytes and Gigabytes, which explains your slight decrease in capacity, as Bits are a different size to bytes.
 
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EclipticShell said:
The other reason is that you get megabytes and megabits. Now it is a fact that Windows reads in Megabits and Gigabits instead of Megabytes and Gigabytes, which explains your slight decrease in capacity, as Bits are a different size to bytes.
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wrong. The hard drive and windows both read in Bytes. The issue is that the hard drive manufacturers use the metric system of 1000 Mega to a Giga. The computer uses the Binary system where it is 1024 Mega to a Giga. This leads a 256GB (256000) to read as 250GB. However the discrepancy can get bigger with file systems, which can limit space. Give on average 10% or so for NTFS and about 8% for FAT and EXT3/4.
 
EclipticShell said:
Right, firstly, I wouldn't worry if your DVD drive makes a lot of noise, when Windows Setup loads, many files are being read at once, so it is just the DVD Drive spinning faster. My old CD-R drive sounds like a chainsaw when it loads XP setup.

Secondly, the number change you are experiencing can be down to two things, firstly, you may have other partitions which are used when the machine boots which take up a couple of hundred Megabytes, and if you have a OEM recovery partition, then this will be taken off too.

Notice the 200MB "System" Partition? You can remove this partition, as windows rewrites it anyway.

The other reason is that you get megabytes and megabits. Now it is a fact that Windows reads in Megabits and Gigabits instead of Megabytes and Gigabytes, which explains your slight decrease in capacity, as Bits are a different size to bytes.
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Thanks in advance! I got my Windows 8 up and running
 
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