hardrive capacity

From: Thendric (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:27:58 -0700

Hi thanks for any help

My question is i have a 160 gb from seagate have a bios
that supports this drive have service pak 1 an have 48
bit adressing enabled Have Win xp pro the drive is seen
as having a capacity of 152617 under properties of the
disk 0 in Administrator tool disk management but has only
a 149.04 gb space that window uses please explain why
the dif in capacity reporting and useable space by the OS
has troubled me for sometime seems all drive do this have
never seen a "xxx GB drive " report has that capacity
when in use under windows it is always less example have
another computer with and IBM drive the drive was sold as
a 60 gb drive on the spec sticker on the it reads
capacity 61.4 gb yet under windows space available is 58
gb

thanks for any answers thendric

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