Maxtor Space?

[stewartlittle]

I have a Maxtor OneTouch portable hard drive,it says 320 on the package but when it's hooked up to the computer it reads a total of 298.
I only wanted it for photo storage so I formatted it and it says 297 free 298.

Where did the other 20+ gig of free space go?

Is it even there?

Thanks,

 

[johnb35]

After you format a drive thats what happens to the space. And between in computer terms what a gigabyte is and what a hard drive determines what a gigabyte is, is different measurements.

This is because the hard drive manufacturers say a gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, and 1 megabyte is 1000 kilobytes, rather than 1024 like windows reads it.

So the size you have after formatting is normal.

 

[Hass]

After you format a drive thats what happens to the space. And between in computer terms what a gigabyte is and what a hard drive determines what a gigabyte is, is different measurements.

This is because the hard drive manufacturers say a gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, and 1 megabyte is 1000 kilobytes, rather than 1024 like windows reads it.

So the size you have after formatting is normal.

^^

all 320gb drives come out with 298gb i believe.

I have one with 298gb as well.
it be normallll.

 

[linkin]

This is normal, my 250gb has 232gb of space.

 

[stewartlittle]

Thanks guys,
I checked my Maxtor 160 and it reads 149gigs total,but now that I know that's normal,I'm OK with it.