13.6HD reads12.6

[gene1938]

I installed a 2nd Hard drive a few weeks ago, it showed up as 13.6 like it should. In the last few days (not sure when) it shows up as only 12.6-my other HD still shows up @10.6 13.6 is primary&10.6 is slave on same IDE channel any ideas????13.6 is aIBM,other is Fugitso.-gene

[oxOGradiusOxo]

Wow, exact same problem, but with a Maxtor 13.6GB UDMA/66 drive.

I bought the drive from ValueAmerica for $60. Once I installed it, formated it, and fdisked it (not in that order) and the drive read 13.6GB. I put the OS on the drive (win98SE) installed apps, drivers, etc. (not in the order) no problems. The first time I ran Norton Disk Doctor it said the drive was incorrectly reporting the amount of space it had, and that Norton could fix this problem. Now, my 13.6GB drive says it only has 12GB.

(still not too shabby for $60) however..

It's all about the Pentiums baby
=[Gradius]=

[gene1938]

Sounds way to familiar only I used McAFEE-wished I had shopped where you did-gene P.S.Your'e right,its still more storage than I'll use.

[This message has been edited by gene1938 (edited 01-02-2000).]

[Todd Beck]

Go figure...my Maxtor 13.6 GB has been showing up lately as 13.0 GB then 13.2 GB. I'm having some problems with my power supply, so I assumed it was related to that. Maybe something is wrong with the drives, though. Mine is Model #91360U4, manufactured 8/28/99. I've e-mailed a tech support guy where I got my system from, I'll let you know what he says.

[Banti]

gene1938,

Are you saying that your 13.6GB drive is showing up as 12.6 in windows??

If so, that is correct. Since the hardrive guys say a gig is 1,000,000,000 bytes and the OS guys say that a gig is 1,073,741,824 bytes. After the math the size is 12.6 gigs

Banti

[gene1938]

Banti-- thanks I was just wondering where 1 gig went to, (actually I wondered what I did to screw-up) thanks for clear up my confusion-gene

[This message has been edited by gene1938 (edited 01-03-2000).]