Maxtor 160GB Hard Drive, reading at 127GB?

[tomb08uk]

Hi, Please help me i have just built my first ever pc and i have just checked to see if everything is operating correctly and have realised when i go to"My Computer" and click on my hard disc ( C it says total capicity being 127GB?

The drive is a serial ATA and im not sure if i am meant to install a driver to tell the motherboard it is and serial ATA and the motherboard does support serial ATA.

Please Reply

Thanks

Tomb08uk

 

[Yeti]

Please don't double post

 

[Cromewell]

XP SP1+ (SP2 if it's during windows install) is needed to set all 160GB on one partition.

 

[tomb08uk]

sorry

sorry just wanted a reply ASAP

 

[Eddie Haskell]

About this 127/137GB issue: http://www.ocfaq.com/article.php/other/83
Got the above link from Praetor

 

[Praetor]

Got the above link from Praetor

Hehe a bit of searching eh?

 

[jeamourt3]

just make another partition.

Control Panel -->Administrative Tools-->Computer Management-->Storage-->Disk Management and make a partition of that 30Gb of Unallocated space

Format the new partition u just make and u could use it

 

[PC Technology INC.]

If there is nothing, no HDDs are EXACTLY 160Gb. They may vary. You probably got a HDD that is around 130GB

 

[Cromewell]

they dont vary by 30GB when the total size is 160GB though

 

[Bobo]

they dont vary by 30GB when the total size is 160GB though

Uh.....duh. My 40GB is 39.2 formatted. If you take that as an average, then 156.8GB should be formatted size on your hdd

 

[Praetor]

Uh.....duh. My 40GB is 39.2 formatted. If you take that as an average, then 156.8GB should be formatted size on your hdd

1. So what if your 40GB is 39.2GB?
2. Why use an "average" (however you might compute that) when you can just compute it directly (149GB)

 

[Bobo]

2. Why use an "average" (however you might compute that) when you can just compute it directly (149GB)

Well, I didn't know how to compute it directly.....

 

[Praetor]

Oh ok. 1E9/2^30*160