HELP!\Windows xp

Hi folk'slease Need help with windows xp it doesn't recognize the correct size of my hdd,i have samsung sp0802n 80gb and it only say's it is a 74.5gb in hdd properties.How can fix this? Thanks for all your help and have a nice day.oldstumpy2

 

Im guessing you aint going to fix it as very rarely hard drives are the same size as what you think ppl are even sueing over it
look here

Although it looks like you have been rather hard done by my 80gig shows up as 78gig
is that an oem box with a seperate restore partition have you ran scandisk its found a few of my gigs that have gone missing in the past

 

Yes it is a oem hdd i'll try the scandisk and see if that helps. Thanks agian for your help.oldstumpy2

 

Sorry stumpy what i meant was is it a OEM built system like Compaq etc
as a lot of those have a seperate partition in which they store the OS etc and you dont get a windows cd just a recovery cd which reinstalls off that partition

 

Hard drive manufacturers market drives in terms of decimal (base 10)

capacity. In decimal notation, one megabyte (MB) is equal to 1,000,000

bytes, and one Gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes.

Programs such as FDISK, system BIOS, and Windows use the binary (base

2) numbering system. In the binary numbering system, one megabyte is

equal to 1,048,576 bytes, and one gigabyte is equal to 1,073,741,824

bytes.

Simply put, decimal and binary translates to the same amount of storage

capacity. Lets say you wanted to measure the distance from point A to

point B. The distance from A to B is one kilometer or .621 miles. It is

the same distance, but it is reported differently due to the

measurement.

Capacity Calculation Formula

Decimal capacity / 1,048,576 = Binary MB capacity

Example:
A 40 GB hard drive is approximately 40,000,000,000 bytes (40 x

1,000,000,000).

40,000,000,000 / 1,048,576 = 38,162 megabytes

In the table below are examples of approximate numbers that the drive

may report.

Decimal Binary MB Windows Output
20 GB 19,073 MB 18.6 GB
40 GB 38,610 MB 37.3 GB
60 GB 57,220 MB 55.8 GB
80 GB 76,293 MB 74.5 GB
120 GB 114,440 MB 111.7 GB
160 GB 152,587 MB 149 GB


What does it matter whether I post the link where this came from?????

 

Thanks for all the help, I called samsung tech support today and basically they said the same thing that you are saying with that said,i must rave a little bit
about this drive, samsung spin point sp0802n 80gb hdd. first off it's heavy, seems to be well
constructed, quiet not the word for it, silent would be better, three year manufactures warrenty,price $73.00 dollars at newegg.com,extra $5.00 for 1 year extended warranty

total $78.00 shipping free fedex express three day's can't beat that. Well thanks agian
oldstumpy

 

For those of you who must have a link for the information provided here there you go.

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/...nl_JnBfY2F0X2x2bDI9fmFueX4mcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=

Ten points you gotta be kidding me???????