Have i been conned?!

toias123

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Just bought a 160gb external HDD and it's showing that it's capacity is 127gb. Is that right? I know HDD aren't exact but over 30gb sounds like a mass miscalculation to me.
File System is NTFS
 
well u should be getting a max of 156GB, but u rarely get as much as u should. I have a 300Gb hdd and I get something like 275Gb, when I should be getting 292Gb. (since the hdd manufacturers like to put it so that 1GB=1000MB, and windows reads it 1GB=1024MB. Atleast thats how I think it goes)
 
Don't know if you've been conned, but I have a 160GB hard drive and I get 149, my brother has a 160GB hard drive and he gets 149, and I think that's about right. You should be getting 93% of what the manufacturer says...

The only thing I'm not sure about is that yours is external. Both listed above are internal. If those work in the exact same way, then you should be getting 149.01, and in that case, you could have been conned.

just for a side note...

1000*1000*1000 = 1000000000
_1KB _1MB__1GB
1024*1024*1024 = 1073741824

1000000000/1073741824 = 0.931322574615478515625 (about 93%)
 
Actually, it probably means you don't have Service Pack 2 for Windows XP (if that's what you are using). This is a known issue with Windows XP; if you have a hard drive over 127 GB in size, it won't display the full space correctly. You have two options: you can make another partition using Disk Management or upgrade to SP2 and then it should see it correctly. However, if you just reinstalled Windows with a disc that only has SP1 or lower on it, then you have to make a new partition to use the space. If that's a slave hard drive, just upgrade to SP2.

EDIT: Just saw that it was external. You probably don't have SP2.
 
it says i have service pack 2 when i look under properties on my computer. This is very strange....
 
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