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Detecting 100GB disk when it should be 120GB
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Ive just bought a new120GB Western digital JB ATA100 8mb cache hard disk. I'm running Win98 and after installing the disk and running Partition Manager it shows the undefined disk as 106273.7Mb ie just over 100GB. I know that the actual capacity advertised by manufacturers id a little bit over what it is but should there be nearly 20Gb missing? I'd appreciate any comments as to why this might be. Thanks Macca |
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120gb.... should be recognized by Windows as 111.7gb - in binary MB it's
114,440mb. Cari www.coribright.com "Macca" wrote in message ... Hi, Ive just bought a new120GB Western digital JB ATA100 8mb cache hard disk. I'm running Win98 and after installing the disk and running Partition Manager it shows the undefined disk as 106273.7Mb ie just over 100GB. I know that the actual capacity advertised by manufacturers id a little bit over what it is but should there be nearly 20Gb missing? I'd appreciate any comments as to why this might be. Thanks Macca |
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Macca wrote:
Hi, Ive just bought a new120GB Western digital JB ATA100 8mb cache hard disk. I'm running Win98 and after installing the disk and running Partition Manager it shows the undefined disk as 106273.7Mb ie just over 100GB. I know that the actual capacity advertised by manufacturers id a little bit over what it is but should there be nearly 20Gb missing? I'd appreciate any comments as to why this might be. Thanks Macca What does the BIOS say about it, how big is it there? If 120 GB means 120000000000 bytes, it's actually 117 gb. 20 gb is too much a difference. Does fdisk or some other partionsoftware show any unallocated space? Perhaps you've not allocated 100% of the drive. Halfgaar -- To send me, Halfgaar, email, remove remove from my email address. |
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I have an ABIT KR7A RAID motherboard and tried to connect it to one of the
RAID IDE ports so it didnt have to be a slave to my old hard disk. When i changed it to be a slave it recognised the correct amount, Macca "Macca" wrote in message ... Hi, Ive just bought a new120GB Western digital JB ATA100 8mb cache hard disk. I'm running Win98 and after installing the disk and running Partition Manager it shows the undefined disk as 106273.7Mb ie just over 100GB. I know that the actual capacity advertised by manufacturers id a little bit over what it is but should there be nearly 20Gb missing? I'd appreciate any comments as to why this might be. Thanks Macca |
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Macca wrote:
I have an ABIT KR7A RAID motherboard and tried to connect it to one of the RAID IDE ports so it didnt have to be a slave to my old hard disk. When i changed it to be a slave it recognised the correct amount, Macca Hmm, I find that strange and it shouldn't do that. Halfgaar -- To send me, Halfgaar, email, remove remove from my email address. |
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