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new seagate hd
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Posted by: Rayvix
I just bought a new Seagate 200 gb... (the info is in my signature) now, when I check the drive capacity, it reads as 186 gbs. now, I know that a drive never has as much space as they say it does, but I really dont think they would be off by 14 gigs, would they? Well, if anyone has an explanation for me, please tell, and if there is a way of fixing this, that would be great.
I have defragged.
I have scanned for errors and bad sectors.
Posted by: trekpsycho
The difference that you are seeing is resulting from two different ways of measuring drive space, binary and decimal. Engineers use decimal and computer techs use binary. A Gigabyte measured in decimal is 1,000,000,000. Measured in binary it is 1,073,741,824. Therefore if you divide 200Gbs (decimal) by 1,073,741,824 your answer would be 186.264514923095703125 gbs (binary) or rounded off to 186Gbs
Since windows shows your drive capacity in binary your drive has not lost any of it's capacity.
Check out this link: http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/d...easure.html#1_0
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Posted by: Rayvix
thanks. geez, I sure hope you checked the link to find that whole 1,073,741,824 bit though!
Posted by: zorg
Also just a stupid question but did you download the seagate Drivers from seagate? I just spent a weekend rebuilding my cousins machine and we couldnt get the damn 200 gig to work properly untill we installed the Seagete drivers/hdd utility, very usefull for partitioning etc etc. To download it go to seaget site , I believe you need to enter the serial number of your drive to dl.
Posted by: trekpsycho
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Originally Posted by Rayvix
thanks. geez, I sure hope you checked the link to find that whole 1,073,741,824 bit though!
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Well, yeah! No way I could remember a number like that!
Posted by: Rayvix
no, I just ran everything from the cd that came with the drive.
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