HD's dont show the right number

[AuraEdge]

My Maxtor Diamondmax's dont show the right numbers My first drive is divited into 2gb, 2gb and 1.35gb (5.35 total) and its a 5.4 drive..ok that seems alright..but my second drive is a 8.4 but its in one partition and regesters 7.85 only? thats a .55 gb loss?

[Machamix]

I'm not too experimented in that area but i think the partition information needs that space in the hdd. I saw in some computers that the bigger drive, the bigger space needed for that.

[Bleeding Edge]

Read for yourself at: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/faq/bytes.shtml#1

[socalgal]

Yep, Bleeding Edge.

Hard drive suppliers define a decimal megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes. A binary megabyte is defined as 1,048,576 bytes. That's why some utilities show different hdd capacities than others for the same drive. Your drive size shows exactly by ±.02mgs the size discrepancy.

[Bleeding Edge]

Heeey! Socal!

Hi Ya!

[Virus]

What O/S do you have.
I am not too sure about Win95b/89(Fat32). But WinNT NTFS does not allow you to create partitions over 8 or 8.5Mb and also the primary partition cannot extend past the first 1000 sectors (8.5Mb) of the drive. Or it could also be what Bleeding Edge pointed out. It would a good idea to partition that drive.

[AuraEdge]

I got win 98
MY drive parts are as follows
physical drive 1 -- 5.4gb
C (2gb fat16)
E (2gb fat32)
F (1.35gb fat 32)
Physical drive 2 -- 8.4
D (7.85 fat32)
For those that said partitioning takes up some space...Its the unpartitioned drive thats short a couple MB's
U mean another partiton will save it?
ah who cares...like 13gig aint enuf...im just nitpickin now

[socalgal]

Hi right back at ya Edge! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Mrcompjr1]

aura.....check to see if the 8.4 has a dos partition......that would explain the loss of space.....i added a 512 meg to my system just to see if i could do it and the numbers come back at around 430 meg!went thru and re-formatted it w/o the dos partition and got the numbers right. i'm just a rookie at this and still learning but that is what i ran into........

[ENVY]

Aura,If ya use the maxblast utility you will get all those little bytes that have been misreported.It is just as socalgal reported,the maxblast utility will let windows properly recognize the drive and report the extra space that is missing now.It is also that windows misreports any drive above 8gb just like Virus says.In other words,this is a 2 fold problem that can be solved with the maxblast utility.Most HDD manufacturers supply just such a utility to get around this problem,Maxblast(maxtor)Western digital has one and also Seagate.So,if ya really need the space try it,it's easy to use.Not positive here but I think ya can install the utility without reformatting.