Question About Hard Drives ?

[PeterGriffin]

I just installed a new 80GB HDD and in disk management it only shows as 76.3 GB. Where did the rest of my hard drive space go?

I understand that the system may use alittle to store the FAT (file allocation table, not type of filesystem), but does it really use that much?

What, if anything, can I do to gain most or all of my space back?

[John Prophet]

sounds about right I think.

[Steve R Jones]

Most drive makers sell their drives based on:

Gig = 1,073,741,824 bytes


Windows on the other hand counts A gig as: 1,000,000,000 bytes

[jmebonner]

Actually, I think it's the other way around Steve

[Steve R Jones]

Probably right. My memory isn't what it used to be. Memory or is that hard drive space. Get the two confused..

[dr_roberts49]

I got a 160GB SATA drive from Newegg last week, and it formated out to around 158GB, using Maxtor's drive utility disk. I think I gained a little more by using their utility, rather than fdisk and format. What did you use?
Robert

[jmebonner]

Originally posted by Steve R Jones
Probably right. My memory isn't what it used to be. Memory or is that hard drive space. Get the two confused..

LOL, you were on the right track, though!