Seagate 200gb Harddrive, missing 75 gig?

Question

I recently bought and installed a Seagate 200gb harddrive. I right click on my c:/, the maximum free space memoryi is 125 gb not 200 or somewhere closer. I just formatted my comp this morning so there is no other program or files besides what comes with the window installations and drivers.

I am missing about 75 gig in memory, any ideas where it went and how to get those 69 gig back?

Thanks for the responses
I am currently installing the service pack 1

My motherboard is an Asus P4VP-mx
here is a link to the specs.

http://www.superwarehouse.com/Asus_P4VP-MX_Motherboard/P4VP-MX/p/388509

Right clicking shows 125gb
to be exact 134,174,396,416
Im using windows xp Pro
filesystem is NTFS

Answer 1

While the sizes the companies write on the box are "estimates" rather then the actual size Windows sees, you should have more space then that.

(Sidenote, when talking about harddrive space, you aren't talking about memory. Memory is a little circuit board with chips on it that fits in a slot on your motherboard.)

This sounds like it might be a BIOS problem. You could try and find out if there is an updated BIOS available for your system from the manufacturer. Some older BIOSes couldn't handle drives above a certain size without a software workaround.

What does Windows say the drive's size is in bytes? (Check by right-clicking the drive and choosing Properties.) The size in bytes should be around 200,000,000,000 bytes. Which isn't quite 200 gigabytes as Windows sees it.

A kilobyte is 1024 bytes, but harddrive manufacturers use 1000 bytes to equal a kilobyte since kilo- as a prefix means 1000.

My 160GB drive shows up as a 149 gigabyte drive in Windows due to that. It's size in bytes is:
160,039,239,680 bytes
Divide that by 1024 3 times and you get 149 point something gigabytes.

There have also been some size limits due to limits in the operating system. (For instance the original Win95 using the FAT16 filesystem couldn't uses drives larger then 2 gigabytes without using multiple partitions, which would show up in Windows as multiple drives even though they're all stored in different areas on one actual drive.)

Answer 2

For Large Hard Drives your motherboard must have support for 48-bit LBA and for Windows, XP service pack 1 or higher.

Answer 3

Unfortunately hd companies round up the size of the hd.they are getting worse as time gos by.I bought a 160 and it only has 127 on it.Maybe if every one starts to complain to these companies they will start putting the right info on their products...

Answer 4

Don't know what type motherboard you have. Some boards will only recognize so much hard drive. You may want to get into the cmoss and check if it is set to large capasity.

Answer 5

Go to Microsoft.com and download SP2 it's free and lets you use all your hard drive. anything prior to SP2 can't deal with very large Hard Drives. Don't blame it on Seagate.