200gb HD = 189gb ???

[bmacd]

I'm in the drive manager (winxp) and it shows that my new 200gb Maxtor has 189gb of unallocated space...is this correct? Where is all the extra space going to?

-=bmacd=-

 

[bmacd]

Windows identifies the drive as: 194474mb in the drive properties, but only shows that 189gb of that is "unallocated".

-=bmacd=-

 

[Confused]

Marketing, that's where


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[rh71]

oh man, that 11GB you're missing is gonna kill you! 😀

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: rh71
oh man, that 11GB you're missing is gonna kill you! 😀

well, i should have just bought a 180gb if i knew that's all i was going to get.

-=bmacd=-

 

[bmacd]

any suggestions on splitting up the partitions before this gets moved ?

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[Confused]

Originally posted by: bmacd

Originally posted by: rh71
oh man, that 11GB you're missing is gonna kill you! 😀

well, i should have just bought a 180gb if i knew that's all i was going to get.

-=bmacd=-

But then you'd only have 170GB of space 😛


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[halik]

ummm
spaces between sectors on a track take up some space plus 1kb = 1024 bytes becuase thats the closest to 10^3 youll get with binary