Dang hard drive

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

well i got my "250Gig" hard drive in the mail today. the sticker on the HD says 250, the invoice on the package says 250, but when i go and format it, it only has 130 gigs. Im like what the heck?? was it a manufacturer mistake?? i emailed the place http://www.computer3g.com and asked for a replacement. any idea what happend?

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[albarran9 10+ year member]

i got a 40 gig hard drive and only have 37gigs. they round the d@am things up. but thats a long ways from 250. i didnt even know they made that big of a drive.

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

well I was gonna say that companies use decimals systems instead of binary to give you the number they market (in your case 250) but even after that rounding and installing an OS you shouldn't lose "that much"

so I'm kind of stuck on that one =/.....

 

[albarran9 10+ year member]

you could just get another one of those and have 260 gigs.

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

i got a 40 gig hard drive and only have 37gigs. they round the d@am things up. but thats a long ways from 250. i didnt even know they made that big of a drive.

mine also said 40gig but it only has 33.7. fuking BS

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

you could just get another one of those and have 260 gigs.

that would be silly cuz he should have gotten what he paid for in the first place anyways.

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

dude

you need to make it so it has like three partitions.

Windows doesn't recognize past something around 130 gigs.

If you partition it into two parts of 125gigs you should be fine.

you can use a Windows XP cd to do the partitioning

 

[Moe Lester 10+ year member]

there is a 128gb barrier in windows without service pack 1, thats probably your problem. (i think it was SP1 anyways)

 

[Moe Lester 10+ year member]

dude

you need to make it so it has like three partitions.

Windows doesn't recognize past something around 130 gigs.

If you partition it into two parts of 125gigs you should be fine.

you can use a Windows XP cd to do the partitioning

he just needs to update to SP1 or 2 if using XP

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

i think it's universal.. i'm pretty sure, although i havent looked it up, that you'll have that problem with any XP service packs...

But again I'm not sure

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

just kick the da*n thing and hope for the best //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[chinny 5,000+ posts]

update your service packs if not make 2 partitions each of 125gigs with fdisk

 

[chinny 5,000+ posts]

btw... when you get a lets say 40gig HD it will never be exactly 40 gigs.. it will be a lil less.

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

btw... when you get a lets say 40gig HD it will never be exactly 40 gigs.. it will be a lil less.

but 33.7gig is ridiculous.

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

Ah isee

so:

1. update service pack

2. partition the HD with 2 125 gigs

3. windows will recognize

correct?