Re: HD shows true size in BIOS, but not in Windows
- From: Malke <malke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:57:13 -0800
Jago wrote:
Yesterday I put together a new system, and the hard drive shows its true
size (250GB) in the bios, however during the windows vista 64bit
installation the hard drive says its only 232 GB.
I then exited the installtion and restarted. It still said it was
232GB. I continued on with the installation hoping to see if it would
change once Windows was installed with all the drivers. I paritioned the
drive so that windows would be 50GB and the rest of the drive would be
for whatever i wanted and i would split it up later. I proceeded to
format the remainder of the hard drive before i went on to install
windows, and it stayed there for a while and then i realised it locked
up and i got a BSOD.
I reset the computer, and went on to install windows and i didnt bother
to format the remainder of the hard drive. Windows installed without any
problems, but when i get to windows, the drive still shows as 232GB.
I ran a memory test from a Kubuntu CD and its not the ram.
anyone has any ideas of what may be going on or what i haven't done?
HD is a Maxtor 250GB SATA
You have driven yourself crazy for no reason. A hard drive will never show
up as the full amount written on the box in an operating system. First of
all, hard drives are measured differently from operating systems and second
of all the formatting takes up some room. See the "Capacity" section here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive
Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=118330
This older article explains it more succinctly:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/how_to_central/technology/4206535.html
Googling using the search term "hard drive capacity" will get you more of
the same.
Malke
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http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
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