Dang hard drive

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

most likely

 

[stones 10+ year member]

^ //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yes.gif.2d6d3882a589966b8145fbc57db57f33.gif the software to make it work takes up the space.

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

oh yea my previous 40 gig was 37.something w/o windows

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

^ //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yes.gif.2d6d3882a589966b8145fbc57db57f33.gif the software to make it work takes up the space.

he means, the FIRMWARE to make it work takes up some space

like there's SMART on the hard drive that you can enable (decreases performance) it basically is a safer, slower way to run hard disks

 

[chinny 5,000+ posts]

Ah isee
so:

1. update service pack

2. partition the HD with 2 125 gigs

3. windows will recognize

correct?

well when you re-partition your HD you will lose all of your data, so update your SP's forst and if it doesnt fix it then re-partition your hard drive by making a boot disk(fdisk) then just make 2 partitions , each partition having 125gig.. read about it here http://fdisk.radified.com/ id recommend you read about it

 

[chinny 5,000+ posts]

but 33.7gig is ridiculous.

just like over rated amps //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

kay... will do pple, wil come back w/ report //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[stones 10+ year member]

he means, the FIRMWARE to make it work takes up some space
like there's SMART on the hard drive that you can enable (decreases performance) it basically is a safer, slower way to run hard disks

Ya that stuff.

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

hmm

my mb is okay. im lookin in the device manager and it says 240 gigs capacity, and 108 gigs unallocated. how do i get windows to read those freakin 108 gigs?

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

now I would put my windows xp cd in, and tell it to put a partition into the unallocated space.

really though i dont know if that would work

 

[Moe Lester 10+ year member]

you shouldnt need to make 2 partitions of 125 gigs. I have a 200 gig drive and i dont have a problem with a single partition. My friends computer has 2 320 gig drives in raid 0, and windows reads his as a single 640 gig drive lol.

 

[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

Jmac beat me to the explanation on binary vs. metric ratings, but as far as the partitions you shouldn't have to set them up if you're running an updated copy of XP.

I'm running a 200 Gb hard drive as well as an 80 and it reads both just fine. The one cool thing about partioning though is that your computer can pretend it has 2 hard drives, and if you get an error in one you can just transfer all your important work to the other "drive" and format the bad one. This way you don't have to save things to CD's, format, reinstall programs, and get back your stuff off the CD's.

 

[jujumantb 10+ year member]

Hard Drives are rated in metric ...Computers read in binary ...

1 kB in metric = 1,000 bytes

1 kB in binary = 1,024 bytes

1 MB in metric = 1,000,000 bytes

1 MB in binary = 1,048,576 bytes

1 GB in metric = 1,000,000,000 bytes

1 GB in binary = 1,073,741,824 bytes

So your computer will always read a hard drive as less space than it's rated at ...

A 100 GB hard drive is 100,000,000,000 bytes ... A computer will read this as 100,000,000,000/1024 = 97,565,250 kilobytes = 95,367.43164 megabytes = 93.13225746 gigabytes

A 40 GB hard drive should read 37.253 GB on the computer ...

80 GB = 74.506 GB

120 GB = 111.759 GB

160 GB = 149.012 GB

200 GB = 186.265 GB

250 GB = 232.831 GB

tada! How did it take that long for somebody to know that? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif

haha I wonder how many emails they get about why their drives arent as big as they say... that must be the worst customer service job ever trying to explain that to stupid people...

 

[AznRevlAzn 10+ year member]

jmac seems to know everything //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Is there something that Jmac DOESN'T KNOW!?

 

[swimfreak26 10+ year member]

Jmac, I believe that the FAT32 file system is the one that limits partition size...NTFS, if I remember correctly, is the newer system that can support *any* size.