New Hard Drive Capacity

[trueblue]

Built my 1st computer yesterday. Want to check if what happened to harddrive is correct:

I have 60gb barracuda IV. During partician via Windows Home XP (Single partician and selected NTFS) I seem to lose a small amont harddrive space into thin air via the XP partician. However I did not record the amout I seemed to lose.

My C drive properties currently shows the drive as 60,011,610,112 bytes particianed
also states the capaicty as 55.8GB NTFS (Used 2.97 GB, Unused 52.9GB).

Does all the sums look correct I do understand about the 1024 byte thing with harddrive manufactures just want to make sure that I lost some space during particianing or if it all looks correct??

 

[Serp86]

60,011,610,112 / 1024(Kb) / 1024(Mb) / 1024(Gb) = 55.890Gb.

The amount of space is correct

 

[Serp86]

Oh, and yes, NTFS does usesome small amount of space (approx. 50Mb), though i'm not sure why (i think it's file indexing)

 

[Lord Evermore]

Indexing doesn't reserve space, and doesn't take up any space unless it's enabled, which isn't an NTFS-specific feature, just WindowsNT/2k/XP. Even if space were reserved in the file system, it would still be reported as part of the drive, just "used" space.

NT/2k/XP however do reserve 8MB at the beginning of the drive that is not included in the partition you create, in case it's ever converted to a dynamic disk (something I only learned a few days ago).