new 200 drive not showing up totally?

[imported_tightflks]

windows side bar says 187, and i thought i did the registry fix right though

but the details of the drive says the 200, so im not too sure

any help??

 

[Fardringle]

This is a pretty common source of confusion.

Drive manufacturers count 1 Gigabyte as one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes.
Windows counts 1 Megabyte as one thousand twenty-four Kilobytes (one KB=1024 bytes) and a Gigabyte as 1024 Megabytes (so 1,073,741,824 bytes for one GB).

Therefore, a drive manufacturer will report that a drive that holds 200,000,000,000 bytes as 200 GB, and Windows will report that same drive as 186.26 GB (rounded up to 187 GB).

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Also Windows uses some space just for storing the directory. Bottom line, you NEVER get to see ALL the space that a drive is rated for. Your numbers are just about right.

 

[imported_tightflks]

thanks for both of your inputs, i knew that i woudlnt see all but didnt know it would be a 14 gig gap, thanks a lot