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I just got a new PC 2 days ago and I was wondering why win xp shows my HD total capacity as 148gig when my HD is 160gig? When the PC boots, it shows the correct size which is 160gig. Is this some kind of bug or has 12gig disappeared?
Hey,
I just got a new PC 2 days ago and I was wondering why win xp shows my HD total capacity as 148gig when my HD is 160gig? When the PC boots, it shows the correct size which is 160gig. Is this some kind of bug or has 12gig disappeared?
It's not to do with the OS, it's to do with the manufacturer of the hard drive. They class 1GB as 1000MB which is incorrect. There's around 1024MB to 1GB (not exact so don't flame me hexy). Basically, that's correct unfortunately.
yeh but then why did it say 163928mb which is 160gig (I checked on the web for a converter) when I was booting up. The fastbuild bios utilty and win xp have diffrent readings, is that normal?
Ah, that's random. The OS does limit a drive to a certain amount. I thought it couldn't have been because i thought it limits it to around 130GB~. I'm not sure then
Originally Posted by hardhousehead
Along with kezzers reply you also will loose a certain ammount when you partiton and format the drive.
kezzer is basically correct. you lose about 7.3% to the 1024/1000 issue (7.3741824% to be exact), which in this case would reduce your 160gb to 148.3gb
although it shouldn't affect the overall size of the drive whats the deal with how many bytes per thingy...sector? is it...it can be from 1 to 8 i think...standard setting is 4. something about the minimum size a file can be. I remember its an option as you install windows and reformat to ntfs...
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Oh ok
That would be cluster size i think
If cluster size is 4kb and you have a 1kb file then it will still take 4kb disk space but the disk will have better performance
So if you had a 8MB cluster size and a 1kb file it would use 8MB disk space but performance would be increased
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