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Formatted Size of HD
While putting together a home theater pc, I bought a Samsung 160 gig
hard drive. When I installed it and did the format, the formatted size came to 131 gigs! WTF?! I know that the formatted size of a hd is smaller than the advertised size - my two 80 gigs come to 74.5 after formatting. I expected some size 'loss', but not damn near 20%! I bought the Samsung because it was a little less than the Western Digital or Maxtor - was I penny wise and pound foolish? Does anyone have a 160 gig WD, Maxtor, or Samsung and what does your drive format out to? And the drive works just fine, so I wouldn't think that its bad... I dunno, I figured the drive would format to 147 gigs or so, but, dayumn! Thanks! |
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Your motherboard's BIOS is limiting you to 137 GB's of harddrive space. You
need to flash your BIOS with it's latest version from your motherboard manufacturer's WWW site. -- DaveW wrote in message ... While putting together a home theater pc, I bought a Samsung 160 gig hard drive. When I installed it and did the format, the formatted size came to 131 gigs! WTF?! I know that the formatted size of a hd is smaller than the advertised size - my two 80 gigs come to 74.5 after formatting. I expected some size 'loss', but not damn near 20%! I bought the Samsung because it was a little less than the Western Digital or Maxtor - was I penny wise and pound foolish? Does anyone have a 160 gig WD, Maxtor, or Samsung and what does your drive format out to? And the drive works just fine, so I wouldn't think that its bad... I dunno, I figured the drive would format to 147 gigs or so, but, dayumn! Thanks! |
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:44:03 GMT, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "DaveW" wrote : Your motherboard's BIOS is limiting you to 137 GB's of harddrive space. You need to flash your BIOS with it's latest version from your motherboard manufacturer's WWW site. There's no guarantee that a BIOS upgrade can cure it though :/ -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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