I got a new hard drive today.

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thedoors27

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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!
 
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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
 
"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
 
thedoors27 said:
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!
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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? :confused:
 
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
 
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.
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The OS doesnt matter.
 
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