Missing 10gb on Harddrive upgrade ???

[2poor2race]

Can anyone help... I have the x3ce mod chip with bios 1959 build and a Maxtor 200gb harddrive. I enable LBA option and partition with F and G. However, it seems that under the harddrive info. I only have a total size of : 189gb ....where is the missing 10gb worth of data. This is a brand new drive which I formatted using X3 bios menu.

 

[TheTK421]

Remeber while the drive may be advertised as 200 GB they measure 1 KB as 1000 bytes not the true 1024 Bytes as 1 KB, thus the drive is smaller because of this "rounding". My 250 gig drive only is in reality 232 GB because of this, it is true on most every drive.

 

[r.amse.s]

200 GB is your gross value. due to the formating process you will lose some space, and remember c:, x:, y:, z: takes to a little bit of space.

cu

 

[Mad-Man-666]

yes you loss space with formating and if you thinking of getting a bigger drive remeber that the bigger the drive the more space you loss do formating

 

[steg]

all maxtor hdd do this mate there not 100% accurate, no hdd is. you use 5gb for c: remember! so it is all right

 

[Telexen]

Lets do some math here.

Based on historical fact, the actual capacity of the drive is usually around the advertised capacity times 1 billion bytes (capacity * 1000^3). With this, you come up with 200 billion bytes. Take that number, and divide it by 1024^3. You come out with about 186.2gb. You've got 189. Consider yourself lucky they added extra sectors

 

[adeon]

actually c: is .5 GB. E is about 5 GB.. and XYZ is about .75 GB, not the acurate numbers but ther somethin like that..

 

[Vyrus]

It's not missing, it's just taken up by the formating.