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ofolion
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_ 		20. October 2006 @ 13:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just bought a new HDD (Western Digital "WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0") which i know is 250gb. I hooked it up and had come trouble getting windows to boot (have OS on a IDE etc, and i knocked out my DVD-RWs cable by accident) anyways i've got it to boot now and when i look in "computer managment" under "disk management" it shows up as only 232.88gb, i havent formatted or even intailized it yet but it should still be showing up as 250gbs right?

So whats wrong? How do i get it to use all 250gbs of it?

thanks in advance :)
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marsey99
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_ 		20. October 2006 @ 13:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thats right. a % of the disks are unusable
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i recall someone once saying "you get what you pay for" hhhmmmm
ofolion
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_ 		20. October 2006 @ 13:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
best part of 17gb unusable?? :(
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Sniping_G
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_ 		20. October 2006 @ 13:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ya same i have a 250 gig hdd but only shows 230 thats sucks
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ofolion
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_ 		20. October 2006 @ 13:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
oh well, nm then, anyone tell me a little more maybe give a wikipedia link something so i can read up?
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ddp
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_ 		20. October 2006 @ 20:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
both of you got it wrong as you don't loose space on hd's. 1k is not 1000 but 1024 so add or multiply it up & you'll get 2 figures. do a properties on the drive & post all the sets of numbers in to this thread so we can see.
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Sniping_G
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_ 		20. October 2006 @ 20:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Used space: 39,106,592,768 36.4GB
Free space: 208,531,599,360 194GB

Capacity: 247,638,503,424 230GB
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ddp
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_ 		20. October 2006 @ 20:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
160gig partitioned into 2.
drive c: 40,006,156,288 37.2gig
drive d: 119,993,925,632 111gig
total 160,000,081,920 148.2gig
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ofolion
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_ 		21. October 2006 @ 02:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
used space: 75,251,712 bytes 71.7mb
free space: 249,981,452,288 bytes 232gbs
capacity: 250,056,704,000 bytes 232gbs
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The_Fiend
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_ 		21. October 2006 @ 03:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drives for those that want more info.
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Wanna tell me off, go ahead.
I dare ya !

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ofolion
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_ 		21. October 2006 @ 05:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks The_Fiend, the "Capacity measurements" section cleary explained it.
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