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250gb HDD showing up as 232.88gb

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  1. ofolion

    ofolion Regular member

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    I just bought a new HDD (Western Digital "WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0") which i know is 250gb. I hooked it up and had come trouble getting windows to boot (have OS on a IDE etc, and i knocked out my DVD-RWs cable by accident) anyways i've got it to boot now and when i look in "computer managment" under "disk management" it shows up as only 232.88gb, i havent formatted or even intailized it yet but it should still be showing up as 250gbs right?

    So whats wrong? How do i get it to use all 250gbs of it?

    thanks in advance :)
     
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  2. marsey99

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    thats right. a % of the disks are unusable
     
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  3. ofolion

    ofolion Regular member

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    best part of 17gb unusable?? :(
     
    ofolion, Oct 20, 2006
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    Sniping_G Regular member

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    ya same i have a 250 gig hdd but only shows 230 thats sucks
     
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  5. ofolion

    ofolion Regular member

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    oh well, nm then, anyone tell me a little more maybe give a wikipedia link something so i can read up?
     
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    both of you got it wrong as you don't loose space on hd's. 1k is not 1000 but 1024 so add or multiply it up & you'll get 2 figures. do a properties on the drive & post all the sets of numbers in to this thread so we can see.
     
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    Sniping_G Regular member

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    Used space: 39,106,592,768 36.4GB
    Free space: 208,531,599,360 194GB

    Capacity: 247,638,503,424 230GB
     
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    160gig partitioned into 2.
    drive c: 40,006,156,288 37.2gig
    drive d: 119,993,925,632 111gig
    total 160,000,081,920 148.2gig
     
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  9. ofolion

    ofolion Regular member

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    used space: 75,251,712 bytes 71.7mb
    free space: 249,981,452,288 bytes 232gbs
    capacity: 250,056,704,000 bytes 232gbs
     
    ofolion, Oct 21, 2006
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  11. ofolion

    ofolion Regular member

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    Thanks The_Fiend, the "Capacity measurements" section cleary explained it.
     
    ofolion, Oct 21, 2006
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