My new hard drive space

[skunk]

I bought a 160GB hard drive, and installed it. When the computer POSTs, it lists as a 160 gig but in My Computer it listed as a 112 gig. I re partitioned the hard drive, now it shows up as 149GB. Thats about as far as I know to do.

[IronCityBoot]

I bought a 160GB hard drive, and installed it. When the computer POSTs, it lists as a 160 gig but in My Computer it listed as a 112 gig. I re partitioned the hard drive, now it shows up as 149GB. Thats about as far as I know to do.

Well at least you got that going for you then.

[weknowhowtolive]

Got service pack 2 installed?

[skunk]

Got service pack 2 installed?
I installed SP2 before I installed the hard drive

[weknowhowtolive]

I installed SP2 before I installed the hard driveWait...do you have two hard drives?

[skunk]

Wait...do you have two hard drives?
Yes, my C: drive is 40GB, and the drive in question is my F: drive

[weknowhowtolive]

Yes, my C: drive is 40GB, and the drive in question is my F: driveDid you format the F drive after SP2 was installed?

[skunk]

Did you format the F drive after SP2 was installed?
I thought I would be fine because I had SP2 on my computer before I even pulled the new hdd out of the box

[weknowhowtolive]

I thought I would be fine because I had SP2 on my computer before I even pulled the new hdd out of the boxhave you tried reformatting it, rather than just repartitioning?

[Tokyohoon]

Press "start", right click "my computer" then select "manage".
Click on "disk management"

In the window to the right, you should see all drives - your new one is probably disk 1.

Look to the left side of that window - underneath the drive number it will say wither "basic" or "dynamic" and then the total drive capacity. A 160 GB drive should show up as around 153-154 GB, depending on the drive manufacturer. You lose about 6-7 gigs to the partition tables and the like.

(like the dirty manufacturers defining a gig as 1000 MB and not 1024).

[skunk]

have you tried reformatting it, rather than just repartitioning?
Didn't help, also tried updating the driver for it, didn't work. I also went to mfg. website (seagate), wasn't helpful

[weknowhowtolive]

I was just about to post what hoon said.

Disk manufactures consider 1GB 1000 MB and not 1024.

My 160 is 149.5

[skunk]

Those sneaky bastards, and all this time I'm here beating myself over the head with a brick over this shit...sheesh:mad:

[weknowhowtolive]

Those sneaky bastards, and all this time I'm here beating myself over the head with a brick over this shit...sheesh:mad:Well, there was a weird bug pre SP2 where hard drives werent showing up past a certain size, and having SP2 installed and reformatting NTSF would fix it.

I kind of forgot about the 1000MB thing until I looked at my disk size and went "oh yeah."