I just bought a 2nd Hard Drive for my computer which I only use for storage (music, photos that sort of thing) no programs are being run off this hard drive. For some reason I can only use 186 GBs of my 200 GB Hard Drive, why is this?
2007-01-04 12:16:16 · 6 answers · asked by jmastagil 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
no no no no dude when you go and buy an HDD the seller tells you that it has this or that capacity but they have and I think they always will think that 2000,000,000,000 bytes are 200 GB but they are not because a KB has 1024 bytes and a MB has 1024 KB and a GB has 1024 MB so if you divide
2000,000,000,000/1024
Result/1024
Result/1024
= 186.26
GB that's why!!!
2007-01-04 12:29:44 · answer #1 · answered by nickedsk8er 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When a hard drive is formatted, some of its space is used to hold the root directory and other information the computer need to read the hard drive. So no hard drive will have 100% of it available.
The other is one of the "tricks" hardware manufacturers like to use. Your computer considers 1 gig of space to be 1024 mg. But most manufacturers measure their drive size using 1 gig equal to only 1000 mg. So they get a number "bigger" then what the computer will list the drive is being. If you use 1024, instead of 1000, your drive will show in Windows as only around 190 gig. Add the amount used by the formatting, and you will be around 186 gig.
So there is nothing wrong with your drive. That is what a 200 gig hard drive should show in Windows.
2007-01-04 12:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nicely u do not incredibly have a challenge it is a controversy.. the force maximum probable has some variety of application on it like maximum new exterior drives do,,,, the applying takes up area,, and particular hardware indescrepancies will take a small volume of area from force,,, so it would desire to be a two hundred Gb force yet examine 186GB ,, and as nicely ,, sure if u needed the completed area on the force then u might desire to have formatted initially reason now ur recommendations are to back up and format or only format and smash records,,, lol human beings hate backing up stuff, only reproduction the stuff someplace and reformat the force,, take the possibility to make it a ntfs as nicely =)
2016-10-30 00:46:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My hard drive is like that too but I think its the software and firmware bulit into the hard drive to make it run that takes up some space...Especially if it came with a CD which helps you to protect your files on that drive...hope this was any help...
2007-01-04 12:23:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hard disk capacities are advertised in decimal gigabytes, but your operating system reports the capacity in binary gigabytes.
200,000,000,000 bytes /1024 /1024 /1024 = 186GB.
2007-01-04 12:19:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it needs it for programs that came with the computer
like the operating system and such
2007-01-04 12:18:26 · answer #6 · answered by srokanator 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋