Internal Hard Drive

Boredom · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:57 am Post subject: Internal Hard Drive

I've just bought a new 200 GB Maxtor internal hard drive and installed it. When I go to check it in "My Computer", it says theres 186 GB, is this correct? There's only one partition so I'm a little confused. I've used the software that came with it to adjust the hard drive as additional storage.

thugangel · Ronin Samurai Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 713

Yes.

http://conceptjunkie.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-is-my-new-200gb-harddisk-only.html

manwithnoname · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

when you buy a new hard drive it never has as much as it says for some reason i dont know the details this is just something to accept i guess. my 60 Gig drive has 49Gigs. my 80Gig has 65Gigs my 120 has 111Gigs.

all except my one its a 80Gig and it has 100Gigs Confused

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nzrock · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:38 am Post subject:

it has to store a system file or something on ur hd....

lucent · newbie! Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 1

it is because computer count kilo, mega, and Giga in a different way.
1 Kilo usually means 1.000 but computer counts 1 kilo as 1024. So when a harddisk said to have 200 GB capacity, according to the computer, it is the same as 200.000.000.000 bytes= 195.312.500 KB= 190.734,86 MB= 186,26 GB

hemo200 · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject:

also the NTFS takes more capacity to keep some files too. and the computers count 1024 KB as 1 MB but the hard disk counts 1000 KB as 1 MB and thats is why you can't see the difference.

love_slayer · newbie! Joined: Jan 03, 2007 Posts: 7

I think so, honestly the hardward usually don't have a correct number like its said