real hard disk size

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eduard2

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hello everybody, I´m new in the forum and don´t know if someone has talked about this before... I just bought a 200Gb disk... but when I tried to formatted it with partition magic... I see it like it has 131GB :confused:

I think is because of the "Gb" instead of "GB"... am I wrong?

What's the formula to translate Gb to GB sizes?

Thanks all
Ed
 
200Gb only equals 25GB, so thats not the case. Hard drive mfg's market a gigabyte at 1,000 megabytes, when it's really 1,024 megabytes. But that would only add up to around 190-195GB. Maybe you have some unallocated space just "sitting" there, thats not part of any partition.
 
What operating system are you running? I've had the same issues with an XP machine. It wasn't the hard drive it self but the operating system would not recognize a hard drive above a certain size.
 
i have Windows XP Professional version 5.1.2600 (this isn't SP2.. maybe the first vertions of XP Professional) is this the problem? The disc doesn't appear in My PC, only in Patition Magic

thanks
Ed
 
sezerb said:
What operating system are you running? I've had the same issues with an XP machine. It wasn't the hard drive it self but the operating system would not recognize a hard drive above a certain size.
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No thats not it at all.

Like Geoff said, it will never come up as much as they tell you.

What disk isnt showing up? The hdd that your OS is on?
 
yes.. in My PC I only see the system hdd, the one that has the OS... (it is configured as master).. I don´t see the new hdd (configured as slave).. I only see this one with Partititon Magic with 131069MB.... what could it be? :confused: XP SP1?

Ed
 
200GB HDD= 200,000,000,000 bytes

200,000,000,000 /1024 /1024/ 1024= ~186.3GB

Your computer should see it as the above size.


If you have windows XP SP1 or later, it isn't Windows that's the problem. I'd say it's a BIOS limitation, and as ceewi1 has shown, it can be solved very simply by flashing BIOS.
 
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