New HDD - Problem

[vaio-fx]

Today I got a 400GB Sata HDD 7200RPM. I put it in my Pc and installed Vista. It worked perfectly except it says that it only has a capacity of 372GB. I know that HDDs are never quite as much as they say they are on the box, but 28GBs less!!!!! That seems like far too much. Is something wrong?

 

[cwharms]

Vista takes about 20gb iirc

 

[Celegorm]

nope, that looks about right for formatting loss. What is messing you up is how manufactures measure 1 gig vs how a computer sees it. Kinda sucks, but there's nothing you can do.

On an un-related topic, I need to ask you to shorten your signature length to five lines.

 

[Tommy Boy]

yeah, that sounds about right for a 400gb hard drive, I had a 250gb one and once it was formatted it said it had 233gb available. Thats just the way it is.

 

[vaio-fx]

Thanks for the replies. Also I have shortened my signature although it was only showing up as 4 lines on my PC (Screen resolution??).