New HArddrive, less space.

[mike511]

I just bought an ibm deskstar 75gxp 61.4 gigs. I put it in and partioned it using pation magic 6 in windows me on a be6-2 mobo with hpt66 ultra 66 controler. After it finished it tells me that it only has a capacity of 57.2 gigs. Were the hell did 4 gigs go??? my 20 gig harddrive says its 19.1 capacity, why did i loose so much on my ibm???

[randy48]

Two things the partition table and FAT32! They use up a lot of storage! Reformat to FAT16 and you'll recover some of it.

[Steve R Jones]

There are two different definitions of a megabyte and a gigabyte. For simplicity and consistency, hard drive manufacturers define a megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes. However, some BIOS's, Fdisk, and Windows Explorer all define a megabyte as 1,048,576 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes. This is also termed as a "binary meg" and a "binary gig."